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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 1 : discontinuance of the guide-board (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 4 : a world outside of science (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 5 : a bit of war photography (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 12 : the next step in journalism (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 14 : a disturbed christmas (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 15 : the cant of cosmopolitanism (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 22 : more mingled races (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 29 : acts of homage (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 31 : the prejudice in favor of retiracy (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 33 : the test of talk (search)
Chapter 33: the test of talk
We are all unconsciously testing ourselves, all the time, for the information of those around us, and one of the most familiar tests is that of talk.
Emerson says that every man reveals himself at every moment; it is he himself, and nobody else, who assigns his position.
Each the herald is who wrote His rank and quartered his own coat.
After spending an hour in the dark with a stranger, we can classify him pretty surely as to education, antecedents, and the like, unless he has had the wit to hold his tongue.
In that case he is inscrutable.
In Coleridge's well-known anecdote the stranger at the dinner-table would forever have remained a dignified and commanding figure, had not the excellence of the apple-dumplings called him for a moment forth from his shell to utter the fatal words, Them's the jockeys for me.
After that the case was hopeless; he had betrayed himself in five words.
Of course the speaker might still have been a saint or a he