Candor 



with telling effect ; her beauty is increased by it ; 

 but cunning, likewise, has learned the art of 

 decorating a lie until it, too, is lovely to look 

 upon. The curse of it is the difficulty to distin- 

 guish between them. The unthinking crowd 

 cannot; so much the more does it behoove hon- 

 esty to deal only with plainness of speech — to 

 call the proverbial spade a spade. Literature 

 that is literature — the recorded thought that is 

 to remain long after the thinker has passed 

 away — ^by so doing, will not suffer. 



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