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    The Young Man's Guide: Classic Wisdom for Improving Mind, Manners, and Morals
    The Young Man's Guide: Classic Wisdom for Improving Mind, Manners, and Morals
    The Young Man's Guide: Classic Wisdom for Improving Mind, Manners, and Morals
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    The Young Man's Guide: Classic Wisdom for Improving Mind, Manners, and Morals

    By William Alcott

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    Timeless wisdom for the modern man!

    In the nineteenth century, William Alcott'sThe Young Man's Guide paved the way toward personal and financial success for thousands of men. Now, in this unique rendition of his classic work, you, too, can use his wisdom to unlock your greatest potential and live a happy and prosperous life. From refining your appearance and handling social interactions to managing your finances and business matters, each of the aphorisms and quotes in this book reveals simple yet revelatory techniques that will empower you to redefine your future and fill it with love, joy, and abundance.

    With William Alcott's guidance, you will strengthen your character, harness purposeful thoughts, and create the life you've always wanted.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9781440565960
    The Young Man's Guide: Classic Wisdom for Improving Mind, Manners, and Morals

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    The Young Man's Guide - William Alcott

    Introduction

    You grasp in your hands a book—nay, a compendium—with the power to change lives. In the intervening years since its publication, William Alcott’s The Young Man’s Guide has set many a gentleman on the virtuous pathway to mastery of the self. The timeless wisdom herein contained is a road map to proper thought, decorum, social graces, and business acumen. This tome is a bulwark against the deficiencies of character and weaknesses inherent in the wild youth—weaknesses that not only plague the youngster internally, but attract disquieting external events.

    For the modern gentleman transitioning from youth, the attainment of success across his endeavors is the defining quest of his life, but it is a quest in which he is given little to no direct guidance. He may aspire to a refined civility, but having never been instructed in the classic manners of comportment, he will surely fail.

    To grasp such heights of accomplishment is not difficult, though few today are aware of the wisdom that would guide them to a proper footing in the world. In order to remedy this sad state, you will find on each page a single observation that guides you, reader, toward a deeper understanding of proper outlook, behavior, action, and will. These brief aphorisms, some deceptively simple, hold the key to developing a strong and virtuous countenance. Study them well, and ponder them deeply––this is not a book to be read and forgotten but to be ruminated over. The reader who truly takes the subsequent quotes to heart will find victory in his daily circumstances, regardless of the venue—an agreeable prospect, one must concede!

    CHAPTER ONE

    On The Formation of Character

    Fix upon a high standard of character. To be thought well of is not sufficient. The goal you are to aim for is the greatest possible degree of usefulness.

    Some may think there is a danger of setting too high a standard of action. I have heard teachers contend that a

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