# How to be a man

Author: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56263

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=How+to+be+a+man+Newcomb&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In one sense, very young persons are apt to think too much of themselves--in another, not enough. When they think they know more than their parents and teachers, or other elderly people, and so set up to be _bold_ and _smart_, then they think too much of themselves. It used to be said, when I was a boy, that “Young folks _think_ old folks are fools; but old folks _know_ young folks are fools.” Although I would be very far indeed from calling you _fools_, because you have already acquired much knowledge, and have the capacity for acquiring much more, yet, with reference to such knowledge as is acquired by _experience_, and in comparison with _what there is to be known_, there is “more trut...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-be-a-man-56263/chapters/20/index.md)