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" If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "
Kimball's Business Speller: Designed for Use in Commercial Schools ... - Page 48
by Gustavus Sylvester Kimball - 1905 - 141 pages
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Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's Chum

Annie Fellows Johnston - 1908 - 360 pages
...man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbours, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten track to his door.' If you want company as bad as all that, you shall have a beaten track to your door....
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Biennial Report, Volume 4

Kansas State Board of Health - 1909 - 800 pages
...14 % Borax. 3 Boracic acid 1 Glycerin 5 Saltpetre v 3 Solution of eosin ( 1 % ) 5 ce. Water, q. 8. If a man can write a better book, preach a better...the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Emerson. The Relation of the Streptococcus to Scarlet Fever. From Journal of the American...
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Character Lessons in American Biography for Public Schools and Home Instruction

James Terry White - 1909 - 132 pages
...do. — CARLYLE. 4. The most useful of the arts is the art of being useful. — JAMES M. LUDLOW. 5. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door....
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A Fourth Reader

Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce - 1909 - 392 pages
...after time a very perfect, noble knight, and did good service to the king. — ALKISED J. CHUISCH. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten...
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The Personal Equation

Lawrence McTurnan - 1910 - 256 pages
...await farther down life's pathway have thus been solved in advance. CHAPTER III WORK-A-DAY HEROES // a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon,...the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. RALPH WALDO EMERSON UNFORTUNATELY most of the biographies written for young people are those...
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Bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Volume 5

1914 - 696 pages
...mighty. This is the inspiration of the profession. "For," as Emerson says, and as I have paraphrased, " If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or build a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he dwell in the wilderness, the •world will make...
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The Typography of Advertisements

Frederick James Trezise - 1911 - 154 pages
...reversed. It became a question of creating the demand. And this advertising does. Emerson wrote, " If a man can write a better book, preach a better...his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten track to his door." But that doesn't apply to the present time. It applied to the days of slow processes...
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Library Journal, Volume 36

Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1911 - 732 pages
...Blame not the orean, the fault is in tbee." "If a man can preach a better sermon, write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though...the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." — ElIERSOlT. Xtbran? Calenöar APRIL 17-19. Georgia LA Athens, Ga. Program: Address by Mr....
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Pushing to the Front, Volume 1

Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 888 pages
...manufacturer says : " If you make a good pin, you will earn more money than if you make a bad steam engine." " If a man can write a better book, preach a better...sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor," says Emerson, " though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a path to his door." Never...
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The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 63

1911 - 1202 pages
...people. Until that day, let those of us who live in country districts remember the words of Emerson, " If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap" (or do a better perineorrhaphy) " than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world...
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