So this subject is done with. It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a poor self-swindler who lies to himself while he reckons the items, and sets down under the head happiness that which is misery. Call anguish—anguish, and despair—despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom. Falsify; insert ‘privilege’ where you should have written ‘pain;’ and see if your mighty creditor will allow the fraud to pass, or accept the coin with which you would cheat him. Offer to
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