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into the wide world — always behind the 

 steady horse — and when you see how 

 friendly and gentle your steed is, you 

 will be glad that you have, on occasion, 

 curbed your temper, and treated him 

 kindly. It is an odd thing, considering 

 how constantly we are all liable to little 

 hastinesses, that we never look back, by 

 any chance, with pleasure, on having 

 been violent. No man ever says, " [ 

 wish I had been more rough and abrupt 

 that day ! " but many a one says, " I 

 wish I could have kept quiet for a 

 moment, and not made a fool of myself 

 by saying so much as I did ! " And 

 this, in spite of the leniency with wliich 

 we regard most of our own faults. Add- 

 ing them up, we make two and two equal 



