--_Punshon._

1700

Old people see best in the distance.

--_German._

1701

'Tis in my memory lock'd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

--_Shakespeare._

1702

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

1703

What is known to three is usually known to everybody.

1704

Those who enquire much into the affairs of others are seldom capable of
retaining the secret that they learn; Therefore,

Shun the inquisitive and curious man,
For what he hears, he will relate again.

1705

To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is
folly.

--_Holmes._

1706

Secrets make a dungeon of the heart, and a jailer of its owner.

1707

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

--_Johnson._

1708

Be able at all times to yield your personal preference.

--_Gestfeld._

1709

Be what your friends think you are; avoid being what your enemies say
you are.

1710

Wouldst thou be crowned monarch of a little world, command thyself.

1711

CONCEIT OF SELF REBUKED.

"When I was younger than I am now," says a lawyer who is still somewhat
this side of middle age, "I had a position in the office of a man who
has a big reputation. Naturally, I felt my responsibility. It was plain
to me that the head of the firm had outlived his usefulness, and I used
to feel sorry to think what would happen to him if I ever left him.
Sheer magnanimity made me overlook a lot of things.

"I wasn't treated in that office with all the deference due me, but I
stood it till one day somebody went too far. Then I marched into the old
gentleman's private office and laid down the law to him. I told him I
wasn't going to endure such treatment another day. I was going to quit,
that was what I was going to do, and I was going to quit right then and
there. I unburdened my mind freely, and then I stopped to give him a
chance to apologize and beg me not to ruin him by leaving. He didn't
look up from his desk. He said to me in a polite kind of way, 'Please
don't slam the door when you go out.'"

--_Washington Post._