(4) As to language: eschew all clichés implying a herd personality. Never allow such terms as Top-Hole, Priceless, or Doggo to pass your lips. Go to the Dictionary if you want an epithet. If you feel eloquent, use that moment to produce a cliché of your own. Cherish your personal vocabulary, however small it is. Use your own epithet as though it were used by a whole nation, if people would have no good reason for otherwise accepting it. _Examples of personal epithets._ That man is _abysmal_. That is an _abysmal_ book. _It was prestigious!_ } Borrowed from the French. Here comes that _sinister bird_! } He is a _sinister card_. (Combination of French and 1890 Slang.) He has a great deal of _sperm_. I like a fellow with as much _sperm_ as that. Borrow from all sides mannerisms of callings or classes to enrich your personal bastion of language. Borrow from the pulpit, from the clattering harangue of the auctioneer, the lawyer’s technicality, the pomposity of politicians.=Borrow grunts from the fisherman, solecisms from the inhabitant of Merioneth.=“He is a preux, ah, yes-a-preux!” You can say—“ah-yes-a-preux” as though it were one word, accent on the “yes.” (5) In accusing yourself, stick to the Code of the Mountain. But crime is alien to a Herdsman’s nature. (6) Yourself must be your Caste. (7) Cherish and develop, side by side, your six most constant indications of different personalities. You will then acquire the potentiality of six men. Leave your front door one day as B.: The next march down the street as E. A variety of clothes, hats especially, are of help in this wider dramatisation of yourself. _Never_ fall into the vulgarity of being or assuming yourself to be one ego. Each trench must have another one behind it. Each single self—that you manage to be at any given time—must have five at least indifferent to it. You must have a power of indifference of _five_ to _one_. All the greatest actions in the world have been five parts out of six impersonal in the impulse of their origin. To follow this principle you need only cultivate your memory. You will avoid being the blind man of _any_ moment. B will see what is hidden to D.=(Who were Turgenev’s “Six Unknown”? Himself.) (8) Never lie. You cannot be too fastidious about the truth. If you must lie, at least see that you lie so badly that it would not deceive a pea-hen.—The world is, however, full of pea-hens. (9) Spend some of your spare time every day in hunting your weaknesses, caught from commerce with the herd, as methodically, solemnly and vindictively as a monkey his fleas. You will find yourself swarming with them while you are surrounded by humanity. But you must not bring them up on the mountain.=If you can get another man to assist you—one, that is, honest enough not to pass his own on to you—that is a good arrangement.