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The Half-Hearted

CHAPTER X
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He was attacking you people on your foreign policy, and he pulled out a New Testament and said, 'What do I read here ?' It went down with many people, but the thing took away my breath." His companion looked perplexedly at the speaker.

"You have had the wrong kind of education, Lewie.

You have always been the spoiled child, and easily and half-unconsciously you have mastered things which the self-made man has to struggle towards with a painful conscious effort.
The result is that you are a highly cultured man without any crudeness or hysteria, while the other people see things in the wrong perspective and run their heads against walls and make themselves miserable.

You gain a lot, but you miss one thing.

You know nothing of the heart of the crowd.


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