How is the World Using You?

Denver Times.

"How is the world using you?" is a salutation often heard. Your response could be pretty accurately inferred from the answer you might give to another question: "How are you using the world?"

Most people who complain that the world has used them badly have not been very conspicuous for their good treatment of the world.

To treat the world well, solely for the purpose of winning its smiles, would be toadyism, and would disappoint. It is true that the world is somewhat like a mirror, in that it usually gives you back frown for frown, and smile for smile; but it is a mirror that often plays evil tricks, for sometimes when you smile it will frown.

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August 10, 1899
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