POINTS TO  PONDER  LXXII

From Reader's Digest

Contributed by Mrs. L. Binder 

   I went into a toy shop to order some hobby supplies. I noticed a tiny girl standing with her mother. The clerk was showing the girl an elaborate doll. "Now, this model cries, talks, drinks, and wets," she explained. 

   "I have a baby sister who does that," the child replied. "I just want a doll." 

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From Reader's Digest

By Eric Hoffer

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.