Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 106
... man's success never depends on the place in which he lives : it depends on the man . It is the man , not the place that counts . The magnet of worth is the drawing power in business . It is what you are , not where you are . If a young man ...
... man's success never depends on the place in which he lives : it depends on the man . It is the man , not the place that counts . The magnet of worth is the drawing power in business . It is what you are , not where you are . If a young man ...
Page 282
... man's wife , as a general rule , is not fit to be any man's wife , especially in a land and life where no man knows how soon he may be poor - and most men of this sort are poor two or three times in the course of their lifetime ...
... man's wife , as a general rule , is not fit to be any man's wife , especially in a land and life where no man knows how soon he may be poor - and most men of this sort are poor two or three times in the course of their lifetime ...
Page 320
... man's life ? " The defi- nition I gave him was this : The happiest hour in the his- tory of a man's life is when he takes his bride for the first time over the threshold of his own door , into a house which he has earned by his own ...
... man's life ? " The defi- nition I gave him was this : The happiest hour in the his- tory of a man's life is when he takes his bride for the first time over the threshold of his own door , into a house which he has earned by his own ...
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