In Winter Quarters 



direction, even if you hitch your own 

 apple-cart to Aldebaran. 



While this is undoubtedly true as 

 respects the mountain peaks of human 

 achievement; while a mind of excep- 

 tional power is only now and then 

 given to some fortunate recipient, the 

 fact remains that the average person 

 rises or falls, within certain limits, 

 above or below the middle line, sub- 

 stantially according to his own efforts 

 and deserts. When I speak of brilliant 

 worldly success, I refer not at all to the 

 mere ownership of property. Posses- 

 sion of gold proves little or nothing, so 

 far as real worth is concerned. It all 

 depends upon how it was obtained. If 

 by inheritance, by common highway 

 robbery in some commercial guise, by 

 stumbling upon a ledge of gold-bearing 

 quartz, by beating some other fellow 

 out of a valuable invention; or by 

 guessing shrewdly in Wall Street, it 

 may bring the limelight and liveries 

 that attract the gaping crowd, but not 

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