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The Philosopher and His Shabby Clothes

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 12, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 3.

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The Philosopher and His Shabby Clothes

“WHEN a stranger treats me with want of proper respect,” said a philosophic poor man, “I comfort myself with the reflection, that it is not myself he slights, but my old shabby coat and hat, which, to say the truth, have no particular claims to admiration. So, if my hat and coat choose to fret about it, let them; it is nothing to me.”