The Art of Money Getting, by P.T. Barnum, Part 1
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The Importance of Selecting the Right Vocation
The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for a young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. Silence and guardians are often quite too negligent in regard to this. Some are born natural mechanics, while some have great aversion to machinery. I never had ingenuity enough to whittle a cider tap so it would not leak. And you may have seen lawyers, doctors and clergymen who were better fitted by nature for the anvil or the lapstone.
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