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Copyright 1904, Henry Cabot Lodge. Copyright 1905, John D. Morris & Co. HISTORY 87 taming. While it is read, perhaps, only for the sake of reading, it helps us to enjoy life and may also teach us to endure it. It has, too, a real value in an instructive way, although how great that value shall be depends upon him who receives the information rather than upon the writer thereof. Even if one gathers from " gossip " nothing but an unphilosophi- cal, unscientific knowledge of people and events, muc...h is gained ; for the man who knows something of the history of the race and of those who have played a part in the past not only has widened his own interest in the world about him, but, other things being equal, is a proportionately more agreeable companion to those whom he encounters in the journey of life. Dr. Johnson on more than one occasion defended desultory reading, to which he himself was very prone, and a wiser man than he laid it down as a maxim many years before that " reading maketh a full man.
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