Stop posting off topics on baseball sites.
"Director Personnel" <foconner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> at the face they have blackened.
>
> Whence comes it that this man, who lost his only son a few months ago,
or
> who this morning was in such trouble through being distressed by
lawsuits
> and quarrels, now no longer thinks of them? Do not wonder; he is quite
> taken
> up in looking out for the boar which his dogs have been hunting so hotly
> for
> the last six hours. He requires nothing more. However full of sadness a
> man
> may be, he is happy for the time, if you can prevail upon him to enter
> into
> some amusement; and however happy a man may be, he will soon be
> discontented
> and wretched, if he be not diverted and occupied by some passion or
> pursuit
> which prevents weariness from overcoming him. Without amusement there is
> no
> joy; with amusement there is no sadness. And this also constitutes the
> happiness of persons in high position, that they have a number of people
> to
> amuse them and have the power to keep themselves in this state.
>
> Consider this. What is it to be superintendent, chancellor, first
> president,
> but to be in a condition wherein from early morning a large number of
> people
> come from all quarters to see them, so as not to leave them an hour in
the
> day in which they can think of themselves? And when they are in disgrace
> and
> sent back to their country houses, where they lack neither wealth nor
> servants to help them on occasion, they do not fail to be wretched and
> desolate, because no one prevents them from thinking of themselves.
>
> 140. How does it happen that this man, so distressed at the death of his
> wife and his
>
>
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