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Frank Crane

CONTENTS

A FOREWORD

PRELUDE

I IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD "DO THE NEXT THING"

II IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD ADJUST MYSELF

III IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD TAKE CARE OF MY BODY

IV IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD TRAIN MY MIND

V IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD BE HAPPY

VI IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD GET MARRIED

VII IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD SAVE MONEY

VIII IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD STUDY THE ART OF PLEASING

IX IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD DETERMINE, EVEN IF I COULD

X IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD MAKE SOME PERMANENT, AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT WITH MY CONSCIENCE

Author

DR. FRANK CRANE

“We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that the experience of others is as useful as our own. Why give to old age alone the privilege of wisdom? What would be thought of one who prided himself on possessing bracelets when he had lost his two arms in war?”

—Yoritomo, the Japanese Philosopher.

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BY
DR. FRANK CRANE

Being the article “If I Were Twenty-One”
which originally appeared in the American Magazine

Revised by the author

New York

WM. H. WISE & CO.

1930

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