Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women: With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers |
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With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers. L IFE to each of us is an ever - changing panorama . The sights of yesterday are old , the scenes of to - day are swiftly passing , and the pictures of to - morrow ...
With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers. L IFE to each of us is an ever - changing panorama . The sights of yesterday are old , the scenes of to - day are swiftly passing , and the pictures of to - morrow ...
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With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers. L IFE to each of us is an ever - changing panorama . The sights of yesterday are old , the scenes of to - day are swiftly passing , and the pictures of to - morrow ...
With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers. L IFE to each of us is an ever - changing panorama . The sights of yesterday are old , the scenes of to - day are swiftly passing , and the pictures of to - morrow ...
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... to high thinking ... to the young in the forming of that finest and most important mechanism in the universe character . They believe that there is just as much of true chivalry and heroism and devotion to the right in the world to- day ...
... to high thinking ... to the young in the forming of that finest and most important mechanism in the universe character . They believe that there is just as much of true chivalry and heroism and devotion to the right in the world to- day ...
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... a moment . The average wages of the toilers in civil- ized lands is not fifteen cents per day , and even in our own fair country it is not quite a dollar per day , and he who can earn ten dollars a day is a very great exception . Yet , if ...
... a moment . The average wages of the toilers in civil- ized lands is not fifteen cents per day , and even in our own fair country it is not quite a dollar per day , and he who can earn ten dollars a day is a very great exception . Yet , if ...
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... in the morning , and studying until time for his tasks at the shop to begin , in order that he might keep up with his studies . His academic career was soon cut short by his pressing poverty , and then he worked hard by day , and ...
... in the morning , and studying until time for his tasks at the shop to begin , in order that he might keep up with his studies . His academic career was soon cut short by his pressing poverty , and then he worked hard by day , and ...
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Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women William C. King,Charles H. Parkhurst No preview available - 2014 |
Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women William C. King,Charles H. Parkhurst No preview available - 2014 |
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