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with enthusiasm as a farmer, and I will show you a man who is sure 

 to be a success; but without enthusiasm a man can scarcely be a success 

 anywhere. 



The foundation for all this is the influence of home. The old adage 

 is, "Just as the twig is 'bent the tree's inclined." What we need is to 

 keep the twig straight, and then you may expect a straight tree. But 

 if the young man has any leaning at all in any direction, I would like 

 him lean toward what I call the original, and, after all, the very noblest 

 occupation known to man anywhere in any country^ — I mean agriculture. 



