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The measure of a man's real character is
what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-------Thomas Macaulay
Some thirty years ago I was studying in a public school in New York, One day, Mrs
Nanette O'Neil gave an arithmetic
1 to our class. When
the papers were 2 she discovered that twelve boys
had made exactly the 3 mistakes throughout the test.
There is nothing really new
about 4 in
exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs O'Neil 5 even say a word about it. She only
asked the twelve boys to 6 after class. I was one of the
twelve.
Mrs O'Neill asked 7 questions, and she didn't 8 us either. Instead, she wrote on
the blackboard the 19 words by Thomas Macaulay. She then
ordered us to 10 these words into our
exercise-books one hundred times.
I don't 11 about, the other eleven boys.
Speaking for 12 I can say: it was the most important
single 13 of my life. Thirty years after being 14 to Macaulay's words, they 15 seem to me the best yardstick (准绳), because they give us a 16 to measure ourselves rather than
others.
17 of us are asked to make 18 decisions about nations going to
war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called 19 daily to make a great many personal
decisions. 20 the wallet, found in the street,
be put into a pocket 21 turned over to the policeman?
Should the 22 change received at the store be
forgotten or 23 ? Nobody will know except 24 . But you have to live with
yourself, and it is always
25 to live with
someone you respect.
