Thoughts: Day 199 readings from "Character And Conduct" - July 20

Readings for July 20 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.

"Thoughts"

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n217/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_201

Authors featured today:

Charles Benjamin Newcomb https://www.thenewcombs.org/2010/12/charles-benjamin-newcomb-1845-1922.html
Possibly Christian Nestell Bovee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Nestell_Bovee
Prentice Mulford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Mulford
Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne

The reading attributed to Bovée is more commonly attributed to Montaigne.

Image:

Prentice Mulford, American humorist, 1877
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prentice_Mulford.jpg