Another Something

I use this blog sometimes as a personal dumping ground, for thoughts and notes that I want to keep around me. This is another one of those, like Rudyard Kipling's 'If'. It's about men, but this is what I aspire to be - a thinking human being:

"The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy." Ralph Waldo Emerson.