Excerpt from Let Us Go Afield
In our schoolboy lyceum days we were accustomed to discuss the momentous question: "Resolved, that the pleasures of anticipation surpass those of realization." The ayes had it, or ought to have had it. It was wasted time to discuss such a certainty as that.
Look back over the realizations of your own life, and set them over against the fond dreams you once had about what you thought your life was going to be. You will be very apt to conclude that anticipation has realization backed off the boards when it comes to solid comfort. The real pleasure of life consists in dreaming of things we want to do. The most interesting reading in the world is that which tells us about ourselves as we would like to be, or about things we would like to do, or about how to get things we want to get. For my own part, I always thought the wholly impractical pages of a sporting goods catalog were, in the light of a true philosophy, the finest reading in the world.
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