Speech of Senator Chauncey M. Depew at the Nineteenth Annual Dinner: Given by the Montauk Club of Brooklyn in Celebration of His Birthday on April 23, 1910 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Speech of Senator Chauncey M. Depew at the Nineteenth Annual Dinner: Given by the Montauk Club of Brooklyn in Celebration of His Birthday on April 23, 1910

There is an eastern maxim that every man at forty is either a fool or a physician. It is eminently true. That old Italian, Carnaro, who found all of his associates in Venice dying at forty, made up his mind that these tragedieswere due to excesses. He had the strength of will to adopt a very severe but frugal regimen both in eating and drink ing. At 80 he published his experiences for the benefit of those who were still dying or likely to die at 40. At 90 and at 100 he repeated the publication and enforced the lesson of the happiness which had come.to him with health and longevity, declaring the same might be Shared by every man. His plan was very simple. He selected out of the many things he liked a few for his table, masticated thoroughly, long before Fletcherism was known, and limited the quantity by measurement upon the scales to half what he had usually devoured, reduced his wine to the minimum, and at that time tobacco had not been discovered.

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Excerpt from Speech of Senator Chauncey M. Depew at the Nineteenth Annual Dinner: Given by the Montauk Club of Brooklyn in Celebration of His Birthday on April 23, 1910

Mr. President and Gentlemen:

No language can express fittingly my pleasure at the renewal of your greeting. For nearly two decades you have gathered annually in honor of my birthday. Members of all political parties, and all religious faiths, men in the professions, in business, in journalism, in literature, in the multifarious activities and antagonisms of American life, lay their differences aside for this festive night, as they have done during all these years. This holding in abeyance and suspension the antagonisms which divide men upon many lines is only ordinarily possible at a funeral. Even in that case, some go as far as did the late Judge Hoar who detested Wendell Phillips, and when requested by the family to be a pallbearer sent back word declining, but with the remark, "I approve of the proceedings." It is a refutation of the universal charge against us that we are so absorbed in materialism that we have lost all faculty for the healthy enjoyment of association and that attrition of minds without rancor which promotes truth and longevity, for tonight, whatever we were yesterday or will be tomorrow, is devoted whole-heartedly and unselfishly to comradeship and good-fellowship.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.