Book-Bills of Narcissus, The
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Chapter 1. Introductory
_ CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY--A WORD OF WISDOM, FOUND WRITTEN, LIKE THE MOST ANCIENT, ON LEATHER
‘Ah! old men‘s boots don‘t go there, sir!‘ said the bootmaker to me one day, as he pointed to the toes of a pair I had just brought him for mending. It was a significant observation, I thought; and as I went on my way home, writing another such chronicle with every springing step, it filled me with much reflection--largely of the nature of platitude, I have little doubt: such reflection, Reader, as is even already, I doubt less, rippling the surface of your mind with ever-widening circles. Yes! you sigh with an air, it is in the unconscious autobiographies we are every moment writing--not those we publish in two volumes and a supplement--where the truth about us is hid. Truly it is a thought that has ‘thrilled dead bosoms,‘ I agree, but why be afraid of it for that, Reader? Truth is not become a platitude only in our day. ‘The Preacher‘ knew it for such some con
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