The book Plain Living And High Thinking; a New Year Homily was written by author Theodore Thornton Munger Here you can read free online of Plain Living And High Thinking; a New Year Homily book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Plain Living And High Thinking; a New Year Homily a good or bad book?
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They build ugly houses and fill them with costly fur- niture that indicates as plainly the source of its selection as if labels were still attached ; books in abundance, perhaps, but without those subtle marks of literary intelligence which not even the book-sellers can impart ; pictures by good art- ists, but they are a collection d by Google 22 PLAIN LIVING, and not a selection ; and so throughout. Now, all this is well enough as the only possible start, but it is a wof ul mistake to sup- pos...e that a large income so spent will bring about refine- ment ; and it is a worse mis- take to suppose that refinement has much to do with income. What Emerson says of pride I would say of refinement : " it can go without domestics, with- out fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed com, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well- contented in fine saloons." There is no question but that d by Google PLAIN LIVING.
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