Laugh and Live
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Genius, Initiative, LIFE, Laugh, Intellect, Energy, SuccessAUTHOR’S FOREWORDIn Laugh and Live, my sole purpose was to emphasize our first duty toward ourselves, which consists of doing our level best at everything we undertake, and making the best of every situation that arises to confront us.All through my early life I read inspirational books and liked them best of all. They seemed to beckon me on. I could feel myself being pulled along by an unseen hand.Let there be no mistake about Making Life Worth While. It has no particular plan or sequence whereby to back up its title. Nearly everythin...
Chapters (49)
- Laugh and Live
- ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK BRITTON PUBLISHING COMPANY 1917
- TO MY MOTHER
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—"Whistle and Hoe—Sing As We Go" CHAPTER II—Taking Stock of Ourselves CHAPTER III—Advantages of an Early Start CHAPTER IV—Profiting by Experience CHAPTER V—Energy, Success and Laughter CHAPTER VI—Building Up a Personality CHAPTER VII—Honesty, the Character Builder CHAPTER VIII—Cleanliness of Body and Mind CHAPTER IX—Consideration for Others CHAPTER X—Keeping Ourselves Democratic CHAPTER XI—Self-Education by Good Reading CHAPTER XII—Physical and Mental Preparedness CHAPTER XIII—Self-indulgence and Failure CHAPTER XIV—Living Beyond Our Means CHAPTER XV—Initiative and Self-Reliance CHAPTER XVI—Failure to Seize Opportunities CHAPTER XVII—Assuming Responsibilities CHAPTER XVIII—Wedlock in Time CHAPTER XIX—Laugh and Live CHAPTER XX—A "CLOSE-UP" OF DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Laugh and Live Do You Ever Laugh? Over the Hedge and on His Way Preparing to Pair With the Prickly Pear A Little Spin Among the Saplings Over the Hills and Far Away—Father and Son A Scene from "His Picture in the Papers" A Scene from "The Americano"—Matching Wits for Gold Taking on Local Color A Scene from "His Picture in the Papers" Douglas Fairbanks in "The Good Bad-Man" Squaring Things With Sister—From "The Habit of Happiness" A Scene from "In Again—Out Again" Bungalowing in California Demonstrating the Monk and the Hand-Organ to a Body of Psychologists "Wedlock in Time"—The Fairbanks' Family Here's Hoping A Close-Up
- LIVE AND LAUGH
- CHAPTER I
- "WHISTLE AND HOE—SING AS WE GO"
- CHAPTER II
- TAKING STOCK OF OURSELVES
- CHAPTER III
- ADVANTAGES OF AN EARLY START
- CHAPTER IV
- PROFITING BY EXPERIENCE
- CHAPTER V
- ENERGY, SUCCESS AND LAUGHTER
- CHAPTER VI
- BUILDING UP A PERSONALITY
- CHAPTER VII
- HONESTY, THE CHARACTER BUILDER
- CHAPTER VIII
- CLEANLINESS OF BODY AND MIND
- CHAPTER IX
- CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS
- CHAPTER X
- KEEPING OURSELVES DEMOCRATIC
- CHAPTER XI
- SELF-EDUCATION BY GOOD READING
- CHAPTER XII
- PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PREPAREDNESS
- CHAPTER XIII
- SELF-INDULGENCE AND FAILURE
- CHAPTER XIV
- LIVING BEYOND OUR MEANS
- CHAPTER XV
- INITIATIVE AND SELF-RELIANCE
- CHAPTER XVI
- FAILURE TO SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES
- CHAPTER XVII
- ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITIES
- CHAPTER XVIII
- WEDLOCK IN TIME
- CHAPTER XIX
- LAUGH AND LIVE
- A "CLOSE-UP" OF DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
- CHAPTER XX
- A "CLOSE-UP" OF DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
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