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more educative process to find them in the 

 fields than in the streets. It is a special 

 schooling, though. Some people see noth- 

 ing when they are in the fields ; they merely 

 want to go home. They are over-de- 

 veloped on the town side, anaemic on the 

 other. Those who go through the earlier 

 years of life without learning how to apply 

 themselves seldom gain a power of concen- 

 tration and success after middle age. Con- 

 tinuity makes their heads ache. The ability 

 to work and observe is as much to be 

 cultivated as temperance, truth-telling, and 

 good manners. Tramps lose the power to 

 support themselves, and people who are 

 brought up in the idleness of either poverty 

 or wealth commonly fail as earners of 

 wages or fame. They are not true friends 

 who merely flatter and indulge us : the 

 best are they who make us do our best. 



And we want to enlarge within, that the 

 world may enlarge for us without. What? 

 Have I said it before ? I will not stop to 

 see, but there was a twinge of memory as 

 I set it down. Of the six hundred million 

 people who tramp and toddle about this 

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