The young woman's guide to excellence / by William A. Alcott.

  • William Alcott
Date:
1841
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Credit: The young woman's guide to excellence / by William A. Alcott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sons in the world, whom you would not wil- lingly take for a daily companion ? Do you not desire likeness in opinion, taste, purpose, &c. ? Might not the two very best persons in the world be unhappy in each other’s constant society, if they were exceedingly unlike each other ? In the establishment, then, of this interesting relation, seek by all means an individual who appears to entertain views of social life, as much as possible, like your own. Does he find his happiness in going abroad, or in lounging ? Is he impatient in the society of children ? Is he a great friend of parade and excitement ? And are you the reverse of all this ? Do you love most the quiet and retirement of home— and to be surrounded by infancy and child- hood ? Do you dread, above almost all things in the world, excitement and parade? Does your friend hate nothing so much as his own thoughts and reflections? Does he dread, also, like the cholera or the plague, all eflbrts at mental or moral improvement ? Does he hate improving conversation—and above all, those books and associates which have the im- provement and elevation of the body and spirit, for their great and leading object ? And have