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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 21, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 42.

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Winning Friends

THE secret of getting along with everybody and having a good time wherever you go is to like people and to take an interest in their lives.
It does not matter whether it is a princess or a serving maid, a statesman or a farmer, whom you are thrown with for a few minutes or a few hours; find out the main interest of the life you have met, and talk about that, and you will interest yourself, and your hearer, too.
This human nature lover is a separate and distinct individual from the man who calls himself a student of human nature.
The student looks at his neighbors usually through a quizzing glass, and continually takes inventory of their vices, defects, and weaknesses.
The other person comes to his fellows with love in the heart and in his mind the one thought, “We are brothers and sisters. What can I do for you?” He cares only and looks only for the grand human sentiments in the heart of each man or woman he meets.
And somehow he finds them. Be the quantity great or infinitesimally small, he calls it out. He has friends everywhere. People love him, believe and confide in him. Why?—Because he loves, believes in, and takes an interest in everybody.—Northwestern Christian Advocate.