Advice to Youth, About 1882
Mark Twain | 1882
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Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed 儿童教育电影to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one's tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First,then. I will say to you my young friends — and I say it beechingly, urgently —
Always obey your parents, when they are prent. This is the best policy in the long run, becau if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that 分别的话superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment. Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to stranger
微信公众号注册平台s, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you,and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offen, come out frankly and confess yourlf in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn't mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
Go to bed early, get up early- this is wi. Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another. But a lark is really the best thing to get up with . It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time—it's no trick at all.
Now as to the matter of lying, you want to be very careful about lying; otherwi you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be in the eyes to the good a
nd the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himlf permanently through a single clumsy and ill finished lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That of cour, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do龟虽寿译文 maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the u of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail—the are requirements; the in time , will make the student perfect; upon the only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence.
For the history of our race, and each individual's experience, are wn thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is 总结与展望immortal. There is in Boston a monument of the man who discovered anesthesia; many people are aware, in the latter days, that that man didn't discover it at all, but stole the discovery from another man. Is this truth mighty, and will it prevail? Ah no, my hearers, the monument is
元宵节趣味灯谜及答案made of hardy material, but the lie it tells will outlast it a million years.
An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth. Why, you might as well tell the truth at once and be done with it. A feeble, stupid, 婴儿耳屎preposterous lie will not live two years—except it be a slander upon somebody. It is indestructible, then of cour, but that is no merit of yours. A final word：begin your practice of this gracious and beautiful art early—begin now. If I had begun earlier, I could have learned now.
Never handle firearms carelessly. The sorrow and suffering that have been caud through the innocent but heedless handling of firearms by the young! Only four days ago, right in the next farm hou to the one where I am spending the summer, a grandmother, old and gray and sweet, one of the loveliest spirits in the land, was sitting at her work, when her young grandson crept in and got down an old, battered, rusty gun which had not been touched for many years and was suppod not to be loaded, and pointed it at her, laughing and threatening to shoot. In her fright she ran screaming and pleading towa
rd the door on the other side of the room; but as she pasd him he placed the gun almost against her very breast and pulled the trigger! He had suppod it was not loaded. And he was right—it wasn't. So there wasn't any harm done. It is the only ca of that kind I ever heard of. Therefore, just the same, don't you meddle with old unloaded firearms; they are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You don't have to take any pains at all with them; you don't have to have a rest, you don't have to have any sights on the gun, you don't have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him.
