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Excerpt from Every Day Book: For Youth This work was undertaken in the hope of making an agreeable companion for youth, to be consulted every day in the year. It was not intended for mere children, but for those who had advanced to the age of twelve or fourteen years, or had arrived at that degree of maturity which would enable them to understand the language, and estimate the value of such counsel, and such entertainment, as might be drawn from the best writers in our language. I wished to put within the reach of all youthful readers an unobtrusive friend, one that would lie upon the shelf, or remain snug in a corner, ready at all times to appear when called for, but never forward to exact attention, one that would mingle pleasure with instruction, and counsel with knowledge, one that, when friends are absent, and companions away, would speak to them, sometimes as a parent deeply concerned for their welfare, and sometimes as a talkative old man who likes nothing so well as a good listener. Such a one I have attempted to prepare, and I have sought aid from a variety of sources. I have gathered legends from one author and lays from another, I have collected fables and proverbs, aphorisms and allegories, and never forgetting that my book should be useful, I have also tried never to permit it to become dull. He who undertakes to wile himself into the good graces of the young, should never allow his stories to be too long, or his homilies too frequent and prosing, and I hope I have taken due care that this little volume should not be a transgressor of this politic rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.