Success in Life: A Book for Young Men (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, 2018 M01 24 - 336 páginas
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It is no less the purpose of the following pages to guide the young reader in the choice of an honourable and worthy aim for which to strive. Diligence, perseverance, firmness, and untiring self-denial, may, after all, be so directed as to be a curse to their owner instead of a blessing. The haste to be rich, and the eagerness to amass wealth, have in all ages, -and never more than in our own day - proved a prolific source of selfishness, vice, and misery. The love of money has too clearly proved itself the root of all evil, while the divine injunction has been entirely for gotten With all thy getting, get wisdom and get under.

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