Excerpt from Thoughts on Men and Things: A Series of Essays What I think every family of girls ought by rights to go off in rotation, and as I am the eldest my turn would. Come first, but of course that I could not help. My principal object, therefore, in writing a Preface to this edition of my book, is to disabuse people of the notion that I am a clever girl. I am not. George Often says I am very stupid, and only this morning he called me a ridiculous little goose, though that, I admit, IS flying to the other extreme. About the Publisher 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.