The Secret Of Wealth
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Gladstone took up the study of a new language when he was seventy, and was the leader of his party until he was eighty-four when he indulged himself by believing he had earned the right to spend the remainder of his life in the studies he loved. Virgil, the poet who gave us the AEneid, the noblest poetical composition that has ever been written, did this everlasting work after he had passed forty. His work previous to that time was of a lesser quality. Clemenceau, the Premier, when called back to guide the political destinies of France, was seventy-eight years old and as the number of his years grows greater, so does his strength of mind and clearness of vision. Lincoln was fifty-one when he became President, when he flowered into his genius. Before that he was a lawyer, an able lawyer, but only unfolding the talents which in his middle age would save his Country. No man knows how great he can be, nor what he can do, until ho has lived his three-score-and-ten. There are today shrewd business men who are now putting away the cash they intend to rely upon later in life, when their judgment and experience are ripe, so they can then have leisure (without having to scramble for money) to devote their fully developed minds and abilities to some study or pursuit which they are fond of, but which they have no time to engage in now--now, while they must make money and lay money away. "For age is opportunity no less than youth itself though in another
dress."
CHAPTER LI "Give a youth resolution and the alphabet and who shall place limits to his career?" THIS is a word to boys and girls of all ages, from four to ninety-four, and it is a true account of how to have a million dollars. From the start every boy and girl should be raised with the idea that they will be compelled to earn a living. From the first penny they possess, they should learn that it can be obtained only as a reward for doing something; that a coin is not a gift to be had for the asking; that they cannot get it without first giving its value in service.
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The Secret Of Wealth