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ABOUT PEOPLE.

and the relative proportion of their attributes is plainly visible.

Insignificance is never greater than when it thinks it is just above the average. Endeavoring to avoid its limitations, it wraps itself in the restlessness which it supposes is the necessary malady of growth. It hugs its imagined headaches and heartaches, and believes that it is perpetually suffering from an access of creative thought, of original deed, which, always coming, never appears. Some men and women are ever on an uneven race for wealth and ambition; they are discontented with the restrictions of home and humility; they speak with pathos of their unfulfilled aspirations, of their weary, large-eyed gaze at society, of the hollowness of life, of the solace in "interior views," of the comfort in keeping thought-diaries, and in interchange of misty quotations with deep natures searching for peace and truth. They try to do and to be more than their mental and physical limitations allow.

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