The Happy Warrior (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Happy Warrior This life we stumble through, or strut through, or through which we creep and whine, or through which we dance and whistle, is built upon hazard - and that is why it is such a very wobbling affair, made up of tricks and chances, hence its miseries, but hence also its spice, hence its tragedies, and hence also its romance. A dog I know - illustrating the point - passed from its gate into the village street one morning, and merely to ease the itch of a momentary fit of temper, or merely to indulge a prankish whim, put a firm bite into a plump leg. Mark, now, the hazard foundation of this chancey life. A dozen commonplace legs were offered the dog, it might have tasted the lot and procured no more pother than the passing of a few shillings, the solatium of a pair of trousers or so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.