“If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.” IfsWayShouldYearsChildrenBookHandsPastThreeFoundNovelInfluenceYouthTaughtMonthsProtectTwentiesMy WayNeighborhoodCyclesSixty Book:The Autobiography of Methuselah Source: The Autobiography of Methuselah
“Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy Time, of clothes bereft Despite the season gusty. If he be Churl or doughty Knight, A Son of Darkness or of Light No man can tell, God bless him! But be he base or glorious Time puts it wholly up to us To dress him!” IfsMenYearsLightLeftBornDarknessDoorsSonClothesSeasonsDressesDespiteGloriousBlessCheerNew YearDaddyInfantKnightsGod BlessHaleBereft Author:John Kendrick Bangs
“If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!” IfsMindKindMayRealMightEyeCareFightingWorryHarderIllStrikesBeing RealWoe Author:John Kendrick Bangs
