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Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from How to Get On by Bernard Feeney, published in 1891.

If you were about to get a house built, you would naturally go to an architect, tell them in a general way what kind of house you required, and then inform them how much money you intended to spend on it. The architect would probably take some time to consider how your

ideas and wishes were to be carried out. They would spoil some sheets of paper and sketching plans,

each coming near and near to include and reconcile all your conditions. At last they would strike on one, requiring no more corrections.

Here is the ground plan of your house.

Here the front, side, rear elevations. Here is your drawing room, there

your dining room. Here your office, your kitchen, and pantry. There on the upper stories,

your bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. And the cost of the hole is kept within the amount you specified.

The plan is complete, you are delighted with it, and you give orders for the immediate execution of the work.

Suppose, however, you determine to economize expenses by declining the services of an architect, and you employ a brick layer

to run up four walls with a certain number of holes in them for doors and windows.

You then get a roof put on, and you find when you look at the hole that you have spent

your money on an ugly, misshapen mass of brick and mortar.

Now, character is a kind of house that everyone has to build up around themselves.

You must do it. Good or bad, refined or coarse, pleasant or unpleasant, character is always being built up

as an essential part of the work of life, ending only when we cease to live. Some pull down

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