Đội bóng chày nổi tiếng hỏng một chiến thắng dễ dàng trong giải vô địch 1986, và Carpenter, 13 vào thời điểm đó, đã phá vỡ xuống trong tiếng nức nở. Tuy nhiên, ông không bao giờ từ bỏ ước mơ của mình: Red Sox một ngày nào đó sẽ chứng minh họ xứng đáng với cống hiến của ông vững chắc. | How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day Arnold Bennett How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day Table of Contents How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a i How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day Arnold Bennett PREFACE I THE DAILY MIRACLE II THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE S PROGRAMME III PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING IV THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE V TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL VI REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE VII CONTROLLING THE MIND VIII THE REFLECTIVE MOOD IX INTEREST IN THE ARTS X NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM XI SERIOUS READING XII DANGERS TO AVOID This page copyright 2000 Blackmask Online. http PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface though placed at the beginning as a preface must be should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work and many reviews of it--some of them nearly as long as the book itself--have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone but as the tone is not in my opinion at all frivolous this objection did not impress me and had no weightier reproach been put forward I might almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless A more serious stricture has however been offered--not in the press but by sundry obviously sincere correspondents and I must deal with it. A reference to page 43 will show that I anticipated and feared this disapprobation. The sentence against which protests have been made is as follows In the majority of instances he the typical man does not precisely feel a passion for his business at best he does not dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance as late as he can and he ends them with joy as early as he can. And his engines while he is engaged in his business are seldom at their full . I am assured in accents of unmistakable sincerity that there are many business men not merely those in high positions or with fine prospects but modest subordinates with no hope of .
