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... obliged to borrow carfare home . Now , in my case there are eighty millions of people in America alone , and a noted evangelist has just said that there are one billion five hundred millions on this globe , all of whom will wish to read ...
... obliged to borrow carfare home . Now , in my case there are eighty millions of people in America alone , and a noted evangelist has just said that there are one billion five hundred millions on this globe , all of whom will wish to read ...
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... obliged to borrow money enough to buy me a meal ticket . All who read this book , who have passed the forty - year mark , will admit , were they turned back to twenty - one , at the time when they first started out in life , and were ...
... obliged to borrow money enough to buy me a meal ticket . All who read this book , who have passed the forty - year mark , will admit , were they turned back to twenty - one , at the time when they first started out in life , and were ...
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... obliged to hew out his own trough and stake out his own salvation . If they made money and were successful , they called it good luck ; if they lost money and failed , it was bad luck , and there it ended . Luck may have something to do ...
... obliged to hew out his own trough and stake out his own salvation . If they made money and were successful , they called it good luck ; if they lost money and failed , it was bad luck , and there it ended . Luck may have something to do ...
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... obliged to borrow a hundred or two for a short time and are willing to pay a little bonus for the accommodation , giving as security diamonds or jewelry , which can be locked in a safe deposit vault at a rental of from $ 3.00 to $ 5.00 ...
... obliged to borrow a hundred or two for a short time and are willing to pay a little bonus for the accommodation , giving as security diamonds or jewelry , which can be locked in a safe deposit vault at a rental of from $ 3.00 to $ 5.00 ...
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... and , when due , are short $ 400 or $ 500 . In order to keep their credit with the bank , they are obliged to borrow of a private broker or small loan company for a week or ten days , until they can re - borrow 38 A POUND OF BRAINS.
... and , when due , are short $ 400 or $ 500 . In order to keep their credit with the bank , they are obliged to borrow of a private broker or small loan company for a week or ten days , until they can re - borrow 38 A POUND OF BRAINS.
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A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 411 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 15 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 15 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 83 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait; Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If sleeping, wake. If feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 34 - For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue. To keep the path that others do.
Page 16 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 412 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 33 - Since then two hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep. And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do.
Page 18 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Page 411 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...