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Ysically,--let _that_ be granted; not always morally; but surely
intellectually and aesthetically. * * * * * Yes, my readers, we have all
been Calves. A great part of all our doings has been, what the writer,
in figurative language, has described as Veal. We have not said,
written, or done very much on which we can now look back with entire
approval; and we have said, written, and done a very great deal on which
we cannot look back but with burning shame and confusion. Very many
things, which, when we did them, we thought remarkably good, and much
better than the doings of ordinary men, we now discern, on calmly
looking back, to have been extremely bad. That time, you know, my
friend, when you talked in a very fluent and animated manner after
dinner at a certain house, and thought you were making a great
impression on the assembled guests, most of them entire strangers, you
are now fully aware that you were only making a fool of yourself. And
let this hint of one public manifestation of Vealiness suffice to
suggest to each of us scores of similar cases. But though we feel, in
our secret souls, what Calves we have been, and though it is well for us
that we should feel it deeply, and thus learn humility and caution, we
do not like to be reminded of it by anybody else. Some people have a
wonderful memory for the Vealy sayings and doings of their friends. They
may be very bad hands at remembering anything else; but they never
forget the silly speeches and actions on which one would like to shut
down the leaf. You may find people a great part of whose conversation
consists of repeating and exaggerating their neighbors' Veal; and though
that Veal may be immature enough and silly enough, it will go hard but
your frie