The Disadvantages of Being Good, and Other Lapses (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Disadvantages of Being Good, and Other LapsesThe third essay was reprinted in an English paper and another English paper awarded the first prize to one sentence of it as the best example that week of a howler. Can the reader guess which was. The sentence and decide if the English men were right?One of the rhymes was first printed anony mously on the West Newton Church Calendar. A few months after, the writer received a paper containing it from California, from a friend who not knowing he was the author thought the lines would please him, then a new hymn-book with the verse as foreword. And a year after a travelling salesman called to try and sell him copies of the verse printed on cards for distribution, such is anonymity!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.