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[…] One night Ralph Waldo Emerson’s* library in Concord, Massachusetts, caught on fire and his precious books began to ascend in smoke. His neighbor, Louisa May Alcott, ran in and expressed her sympathy. “Never mind,” he said. “See what a beautiful blaze they make.”
This is overdoing a little, but the thought is right. Nothing is ever quite as bad as it seems when it’s happening.
* Emerson was Paul Harris’s favorite
philosopher
This graphic was published in the June 1945 issue of The Rotarian |
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