 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1886 - 1000 pages
...of pocket-money their parents allow them when they are boys." The lamented Garfield said: "Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify, but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen a young man is to be (tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself." In all my acquaintance... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1880 - 402 pages
...born, but success is made. " Young gentlemen, let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your way. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I have never known one to be drowned who was worth saving. This would not be... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - 1880 - 598 pages
...Democrat here. Speech of General Oarfisld, at Faneuil Hall, 1878. GARFIELD AS A BOY AND MAN. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Garfield's Address... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 518 pages
...it is yours,— a part of yourself. .... Let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your way. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I have never known one to be drowned who was worth saving To a young man who... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 514 pages
...is yours, — ' a part of yourself. .... Let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your way. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I have never known one to be drowned who was worth saving To a young man who... | |
 | 1880 - 670 pages
...you may follow it to RUIN, but never to SUCCESS. A pound of PLUCK is worth a ton of LUCK." " Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten, the i best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1881 - 784 pages
...President Garfield 595 By the Bedside of the suffering President 598 • GARFIELD AS A BOY AND MAN, Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Garficld's Address... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 354 pages
...ignis-fatuus. You may follow it to Ruin, but never to Success. A POUND of Pluck is worth a ton of Luck. POVERTY is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a Man to be drowned who was worth the saving. I FOR the noblest... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 pages
...Right than succeed in Wrong. Present evils always seem greater than those that never come. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. For the noblest man... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1881 - 626 pages
...Lying in State at Cleveland, 601 The Catafalque used at Cleveland, 607 GARFIELD ^BOY-" MAN. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Garfield's Address... | |
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Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times •out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was... 
