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"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation."
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Table of Contents
- My Financial Career
- Lord Oxhead's Secret
- Boarding-House Geometry
- The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
- A Christmas Letter
- How to Make a Million Dollars
- How to Live to be 200
- How to Avoid Getting Married
- How to be a Doctor
- The New Food
- A New Pathology
- The Poet Answered
- The Force of Statistics
- Men Who have Shaved Me
- Getting the Thread of It
- Telling His Faults
- Winter Pastimes
- Number Fifty-Six
- Aristocratic Education
- The Conjurer's Revenge
- Hints to Travellers
- A Manual of Education
- Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
- The Life of John Smith
- On Collecting Things
- Society Chat-Chat
- Insurance up to Date
- Borrowing a Match
- A Lesson in Fiction
- Helping the Armenians
- A Study in Still Life
- An Experiment With Policeman Hogan
- The Passing of the Poet
- Self-made Men
- A Model Dialogue
- Back to the Bush
- Reflections on Riding
- Saloonio
- Half-hours with the Poets
- A, B, and C
- Acknowledgments
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