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 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 beseechingly, urgingly --
Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because 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 superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, 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 offense, come out frankly and confess yourself 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 wise. 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.
相关单词：beseechingly
beseechingly解释：adv. 恳求地
beseechingly例句：
She stood up, and almost beseechingly, asked her husband,'shall we go now?" 她站起身来，几乎是恳求似地问丈夫：“我们现在就走吧？”
Narcissa began to cry in earnest, gazing beseechingly all the while at Snape. 纳西莎伤心地哭了起来，乞求地盯着斯内普。
相关单词：superstition
superstition解释：n.迷信，迷信行为
superstition例句：
It's a common superstition that black cats are unlucky.认为黑猫不吉祥是一种很普遍的迷信。
Superstition results from ignorance.迷信产生于无知。
相关单词：acting
acting解释：n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的
acting例句：
Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
相关单词：judgment
judgment解释：n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见
judgment例句：
The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
相关单词：intentional
intentional解释：adj.故意的，有意（识）的
intentional例句：
Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。
相关单词：offense
offense解释：n.犯规，违法行为；冒犯，得罪
offense例句：
I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
相关单词：frankly
frankly解释：adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说
frankly例句：
To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。
相关单词：kindliness
kindliness解释：n.厚道，亲切，友好的行为
kindliness例句：
Martha looked up into a strange face and dark eyes alight with kindliness and concern. 马撒慢慢抬起头，映入眼帘的是张陌生的脸，脸上有一双充满慈爱和关注的眼睛。 来自辞典例句
I think the chief thing that struck me
相关单词：dynamite
dynamite解释：n./vt.(用)炸药(爆破)
dynamite例句：
The workmen detonated the dynamite.工人们把炸药引爆了。
The philosopher was still political dynamite.那位哲学家仍旧是政治上的爆炸性人物。
相关单词：lark
lark解释：n.云雀，百灵鸟；n.嬉戏，玩笑；vi.嬉戏
lark例句：
He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。
She lived in the village with her grandparents as cheerful as a lark.她同祖父母一起住在乡间非常快活。
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