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388 IMPROVEMENT ERA. 3.
May
any
person print the book at the expiration of the
copy- right? 1. A copyright may be secured for 28 years. It may then be renewed for a period of 14 years. 2. The owner of the copyright may assign it, and in case of his death, his heirs are entitled to his rights. 3. At the close of 42 years, or 28 years, in case renewal is not made, any person may publish the work. NOTES. To live long it is necessary to live slowly. — Cicero. The gods have given us a long life, but we have made it short. — Seneca. Old age seizes upon an ill-spent youth like fire upon a rotten house. — South. A coward can't stand defeat. It is only a brave man or woman who can turn a defeat into a triumph. Do but gain a boy's trust; convince him by your behavior that you have his happiness at heart; let him discover that you are the wiser of the two; let him experience the benefit of following your advice and the evils that arise from disregarding it, and fear not that you will readily enough guide him. — Spencer. People are beginning to see the first requisite in life is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service if there be not enough vital energy to work it, and hence to obtain the one by sacrificing the source of the other is now considered a folly — a folly which the eventual failure of juvenile prodigies constantly illustrates. Thus we are discover- ing the wisdom of the saying that one secret in education is "to know how wisely to lose time." — Spencer. Nothing else is worth so much to you as your unqualified endorse- ment of yourself. The approval of the "still, small voice" within you, which says to every noble act, "That is right," and to every ignoble one, "That is wrong," is worth more to you than all the kingdoms of the earth. It matters little what others may think about you, or what the world may say; it makes no difference whether the press or the public praises or blames; it is by your own honest judgment of yourself that you must stand or fall. — Success.