First Links — 4.1.14

Advice for a Happy Life
Charles Murray, Wall Street Journal

When Revolutions Hit Reality
Orlando Figes, Lapham’s Quarterly

The Grammar of “Abide with Me”
Geoffrey K. Pullum, Language Log

Is France Losing Its Panache?
A. A. Gill, Vanity Fair

Letter: Graham Greene to Elizabeth Greene
American Reader

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