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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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les of kindness toothers, which must have a great effect on their char-acters. Dear grandmother Tryphosas dictum, Goodmanners is to do and say the kindest thing in thekindest way, applies to almost every Italian of ourown class that I have ever met, and I assure you theyare delightful people to be with. Let us hope thatmodern egotism, which results in the hopeless behaviorof some young people to-day, will never find its wayinto the elegant, graceful salons of this lovely land. I think grandmammas time was much nicer thanours in America, an5rway, and certainly some of ouryoung people have sadly wandered from the straightand narrow paths of our dear, polite Puritan ances-tors, who were gentle and kindly, not rude and bois-terous. To have a distinguished name is all very fine,provided one lives up to ones ancestry, but to simplylie back upon what your people have done before you,seems to prove that the bearers of that name are worseoff than those who are accomplishing things now, and(30I
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ENTRANCE HALL AT THE VILLA TESORIERA OF H. S. H. PRINCESS RATIBOR DE HOHENLOHE, NEAR TURIN AND COUNTRY SEATS making themselves worthy ancestors of generations tocome. This is very striking in Italy; for example,this charming family, that has been endowed for gen-erations with brains, beauty and wealth, is still keepingquite up to its standard of excellence. Another feature of the old-world life that comes asa grateful rest to a hustling American is the senseof repose and the realization of the great differencebetween leisure and its benefits, and laziness and itsunfortunate results. There is almost as much differ-ence between leisure and laziness as between libertyand license; the two former are often mistaken for thelatter by unthinking people. There are many to-daywho dont have to do anything who dont wishto do anything, and spend their time in unprofitableidleness, while people of the same means in Europe,especially in Italy, spend their leisure in perfectingsome talent or accompli

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