HIS PERSONALITY 
grows old. All manner of fun appeais to 
him, but no fun,—so called,—over which 
there is not spread the sweetest delicacy. 
In all his relations with others he is charac- 
terized by a winning gentleness. And yet he 
is swiftly roused at any show of deceit or 
sham. Kindliness, charity, modesty, tender- 
ness; intuition; enormous capacity for work ; 
unswerving devotion to a friend; intense 
absorption ; unwearying application; steadfast- 
ness in his adherence to the right no matter 
how others may oppose, but with chivalrous 
tolerance of those who differ; a broad, cheerful 
outlook upon life, ever seeking to find the 
good and ignore the evil; a wide, deep 
sympathy for all that makes for uprightness 
in individual, civic and national life;—above 
all, the subtle soul of a poet joined to the 
throbbing heart of a man: these are among 
the attributes that mark the personality of 
Luther Burbank. 
At times he is much given to epigrammatic 
speech: these are among many expressions: 
“No man ever did a great work for hire.” 
“TI hope that no one will ever be worse for 
my having lived 
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