at you mean any more than the catdoes, but the sentiment seems to imply a proper spirit on your part,and generally touches her feelings to such an extent that if you areof good manners and passable appearance she will stick her back up andrub her nose against you. Matters having reached this stage, you mayventure to chuck her under the chin and tickle the side of her head,and the intelligent creature will then stick her claws into your legs;and all is friendship and affection,Curtis Lazar Tröjor, as so sweetly expressed in thebeautiful lines--"I love little pussy,Alex Galchenyuk Tröjor, her coat is so warm,Patrik Nemeth Tröjor,And if I don't tease her she'll do me no harm;So I'll stroke her, and pat her,Erik Johnson Tröjor, and feed her with food,And pussy will love me because I am good."The last two lines of the stanza give us a pretty true insight intopussy's notions of human goodness. it is evident that in her opiniongoodness consists of stroking her, and patting her,Vladimir Tarasenko Tröjor, and feeding herwith food. I fear this narrow-minded view of virtue, though, is notconfined to pussies. We are all inclined to adopt a similar standardof merit in our estimate of other people. A good man is a man who isgood to us, and a bad man is a man who doesn't do what we want him to.
The truth is, we each of us have an inborn conviction that the wholeworld, with everybody and everything in it, was created as a sort ofnecessary appendage to ourselves. Our fellow men and women were madeto admire us and to minister to our various requirements. You and I,dear reader, are each the center of the universe in our respectiveopinions. You, as I understand it, were brought into being by aconsiderate Providence in order that you might read and pay me forwhat I write; while I,Al MacInnis Tröjor, in your opinion, am an article sent into theworld to write something for you to read. The stars--as we term themyriad other worlds that are rushing down beside us through theeternal silence--were put into the heavens to make the sky lookinteresting for us at night; and the moon with its dark mysteries andever-hidden face is an arrangement for us to flirt under.
I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's bantam cock, who fanciedthe sun got up every morning to hear him crow. "'Tis vanity thatmakes the world go round." I don't believe any man ever existedwithout vanity, and if he did he would be an extremely uncomfortableperson to have anything to do with. He would,Tobias Enstrom Tröjor, of course, be a verygood man, and we should respect him very much. He would be a veryadmirable man--a man to be put under a glass case and shown round as aspecimen--a man to be stuck upon a pedestal and copied,Män Outerwear, like a schoolexercise--a man to be reverenced,Dame Moncler Fragon, but not a man to be loved, not ahuman brother whose hand we should care to grip. Angels may be veryexcellent sort of folk in their way, but we,PJS Herreklær Harraseeket Parkas, poor mortals, in ourpresent state,Pierre Pilote Tröjor, would probably find them precious slow company. Evenmere good people are rather depressing. It is in our faults andfailings, not in our virtues,Canada Goose Menn, that we touch one another and findsympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is inour follies that we are at on
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