Essays on Life 



of being cheated as to cheat," and great as 

 the pleasure both of cheating and boring 

 undoubtedly is, I believe he was right. So 

 I remember a fpoem which came out some 

 thirty years ago in Punch, about a young 

 lady who went forth in quest to "Some 

 burden make or burden bear, but which 

 she did not greatly care, oh Miserie." So, 

 again, all the holy men and women who in 

 the Middle Ages professed to have discovered 

 how to make the best of life took care that 

 being bored, if not cheated, should have a 

 large place in their programme. Still there 

 are limits, and I close not without fear that I 

 may have exceeded them. 



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