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The Importance of Being Gentlemen
In England the business makes the man. If a man in that country is a mechanic or working man he is not recognised as a gentleman. The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation. Let your motto then always be excelsior, for by living up to it there is no such word as fail. Learn something useful. Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession. This provision might save many persons from misery who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. Many persons are always kept poor because they are too visionary. They keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always under the harrow.