Platform Echoes, or Living Truths for Head and Heart

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Excerpt from Platform Echoes, or Living Truths for Head and Heart: Illustrated by Nearly Five Hundred Thrilling Anecdotes and Incidents, Humorous Stories, Personal Experiences and Adventures, Touching Home Scenes, and Tales of Tender Pathos, Drawn From Bright and Shady Sides of LifeFully sensible, as I am, of many faults and shortcomings in these records of the platform, I remember gratefully the sympathetic and encouraging words of a master of platform power, whose voice is now hushed in death, Wendell Phillips, - who gave me many a kind and helpful word. Meeting him on a journey, and speaking of my lack of edu cation and how much I felt it, he said in cordial tones, Why, any scholar who hears you perceives at once your lack of educational training, so called, and then added with a smile, But perhaps the world is all the better for that.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.