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We owned the stroke with an indulgent smile. "No, not exactly that. The truth is we have been very much interested by your notion if it was yours, which is not altogether probable and we have been turning its light upon our own experience, in what we should not so much call self-celebration as self-exploitation.
This latter appears to be its present state. Neither its individuality nor its self-exploitation, scarcely its grandiose pretension, remains. There continues to be printed in large type an amount of shallow stuff that would not be missed if it were omitted altogether.
But neither fear of the charge of self-exploitation nor the specter of a modesty oft too obtrusive to be real shall deter me from a proper freedom of narration, where, though in the main but a humble chronicler, I must needs appear upon the scene and speak of myself; for I at least have not always been a dummy and have sometimes in a way helped to make history.
The moment for self-exploitation was not ripe; I did not stand high enough in the confidence of the major, or, I may say, of the lieutenant of my own precinct, to risk the triumph I anticipated ultimately by a premature expression of opinion. I had an enemy at headquarters; or, rather, one of the men there had always appeared peculiarly interested in showing me up in the worst light.
What I contest is the self-exploitation to which he is prone, so lacking in dignity and open to animadversion. Thus it was that instant upon the appearance of the proposed League of Nations I made bold to challenge it, as but a pretty conceit having no real value, a serious assault upon our national sovereignty. Its argument seemed to me full of copybook maxims, easier recited than applied.
But where the scale of production is so small that the farmer and his family do the work and do not habitually hire outside labor, the whole case is different. The chief exploitation here is self-exploitation.
He had also many personal weaknesses: his egotism was marked, he loved applause, he was always seeking opportunities for self-exploitation, and he even aspired to fame as an author and philosopher. The staid business men of Pittsburgh early regarded Carnegie with disfavor; his daring impressed them as rashness and his bold adventures as the plunging of the speculator.
What I contest is the self-exploitation to which he is prone, so lacking in dignity and open to animadversion. Thus it was that instant upon the appearance of the proposed League of Nations I made bold to challenge it, as but a pretty conceit having no real value, a serious assault upon our national sovereignty. Its argument seemed to me full of copybook maxims, easier recited than applied.
She was fast becoming conscious of the prize that had been given her her charm and her beauty and an indefinable force was driving her on to obtain the necessary means of self-exploitation. It was true, as her grandmother said, that more and more this autumn Milly was away from her home. Mrs. Gilbert had not forgotten her, nor the other people she had met at the Lake.
So he did, and he went the way of millions of lazy-minded, lazy- moraled husbands while Kedzie went the way of men and women who succeed by self-exploitation and count only that bad morals which is also bad business. And that was the status of the matrimonial adventure of the Gilfoyles for the present.
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