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Excerpt from Advice to Irish Girls in America Do you think that worth living for? What about the twenty, and thirty, and fifty, and a hundred hundred thousand years of eternity? It is certainly very pleasant to be thought a great deal about in this world, and to have all our friends very fond of us, and to hear people praise us, and to have a bag of dollars, and have a great funeral when we die; but after that? My children, do we think What will come after? Listen a little, and I will tell you. Try if you can count the stars up in the sky some bright winter night; you will soon stop, there are so many. Try if you can count all the leaves on the first tree you see. That will be still more difficult. Well, my chil. 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.