The Rise and Fall of the Mustache and Other Hawkeyetems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of the Mustache and Other HawkeyetemsWith wonderful Shapes, and every day dawns upon us in'a medley Of new marvels. We are awakened from these dreams by contact with hard, stubborn facts, not rudely and harshly, but gradually and tenderly. SO much that is bright and beautiful, and full Of romance and woiider, passes away with the earlier years Of life, that by the time we are able to earn our first salary we hold in our hands only the crumpled, withered leaves Of Childhood's simple creeds and loving superstitions. Year after year, the inconoclastic hand Of earnest, real life, tears from the lofty pedestals upon which our loving fancy had enshrined them, the gods Of gold that crumble into worthless clay at our feet.' We live to lose faith, at last, in Puss in Boots, we cease to weep over the sad tragedy Of Cock Robin, there comes a time when we can read Arabian Nights, and then go to bed without a tremor, with one heart -breaking pang at last we give up darling Jack the Giant Killer, and acknowledge.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.