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This book offers a series of essays that delve into common subjects, providing clear and concise discussions on a variety of everyday themes.
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“The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.”
“The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.”
“Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.”
“Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.”
“It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.”
“It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.”
“Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.”