| Take It from Me: A Look in on the Other Fellow Contributor(s): Thompson, Vance (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596053992 ISBN-13: 9781596053991 Publisher: Cosimo Classics OUR PRICE: $11.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| LCCN: 2006275674 |
| Series: Cosimo Classics Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5" W x 8" (0.48 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Animated by the vibrant, cheerful spirit of pre-World War I America, this 1916 guide to "the philosophy of Otherfellowship" is like Adam Smith meets Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: it's a directive to living with the kind of gung-ho American enthusiasm and expansive spirit that the Gilded Age was bursting with. From the one basic human law we all must follow-"Be good "-to our "immense and imperative" duty to vote, this little book contains all manner of wisdom for relating to your fellow human beings: . "Decent living... consists in not being frightened, not being fat, and not being sentimental." . "It is precisely because it is predestined that friendship is at once mysterious and precious." . "If your work hasn't in it the essential quality of being good for the Other Fellow, he will not pay for it." Loving thy neighbor was never so easy-or so entertaining-as pioneering self-help guru Thompson made it sound almost a century ago. VANCE THOMPSON (1863-1925) is also the author of Eat and Grow Thin and The Ego Book. |