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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Name: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Author: George Horace Lorimer
ISBN: 9798592399961

George Horace Lorimer · 2003 · 119 pages

I didn't have your advantages when I was a boy, and you can't have mine. Some men learn the value of money by not having any and starting out to pry a few dollars loose from the odd millions that are lying around; and some learn it by having fifty thousand or so left to them and starting out to spend it as if it were fifty thousand a year. Some men learn the value of truth by having to do business with liars; and some by going to Sunday School. Some men learn the cussedness of whiskey by having a drunken father; and some by having a good mother.