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and measuring tape and ribbons, let him remember that 95 

 per cent, of those who embark in this business make failures, 

 while in the business of farming over 90 per cent, meet with 

 success. 



> The pleasure and profit also of a business must be meas- 

 ured by its risks. Few make fortunes at once. Providence 

 wisely orders it thus, for experience shows that fortunes so 

 made are curses, not blessings, in disguise. No one knows 

 the value of money till he has earned some. Let every 

 young man as he toils from day to day, try to realize the 

 blessings and pleasures of a New England farmer's home, 

 around whose hearthstone cluster the sweets of domestic 

 bliss, dearer than any he can find from any other source or 

 in any other place, higher than any his hopes may aspire to, 

 except when he shall have made a similar home his own. To 

 this acme of bliss it is natural and honorable to aspire. 



