 | 1881 - 692 ページ
...You may follow it to ruin, but never to success. 4. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. 5. Nothing is more uncertain than the result of any one throw ; few things more certain than the result... | |
 | 1889 - 424 ページ
...the only things worth doing." And Garfield said, " Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth saving." DO WE LEARN TO DO BY DOING? BY 8ÜPT. GEORGE HOWLAND, CHICAGO. * ( ^&^*E learn to do by doing,"... | |
 | 1891 - 328 ページ
...learned from his own personal experience, that poverty was not an obstacle to success. He said that "nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquflintance I have never known one to be drowned who was worth saving." He urged that a young man... | |
 | 1884 - 604 ページ
...laboring men." Garfield once said in an address: " Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who... | |
 | 1920 - 734 ページ
...uncomfortable, as I can estify, but nine times out of ten the thing that can happen to a young p»n is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In |JI my acquaintance I never knew a man be drowned who was worth saving. — ames A. Garfleld. The Walla... | |
 | 1922 - 836 ページ
...ignis fatuus, you may follow it to ruin, never to success. Poverty is hard, which I can testify, but the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be cast overboard and made to sink or swim for himself. In all my experience, I never knew a man to drown... | |
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Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was... 
