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Adventure Every Day , J 
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F rom what activity, I ask, does more continuous 
humor, excitement, thrill, depression, irritation, 
satisfaction, and genuine feeling of achievement flow 
than from tlie routine of earning a living? 
Every day in business is adventure. There is excite- 
_ ment in booking an unexpected order, getting out a® 
rush order, borrowing money for the payroll, paying 
off a note, collecting an account that has been given up » 
as hopeless, receiving an out-of-town customer, lending 
a dollar to someone you haven*t seen for twenty years, 
deciding to increase or reduce prices, bargaining with 
tough buyers and eating lunch with a new customer^, 
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The business day sharpens the wits, brightens the 
eye, quickens the pulse, stimulates the liver, improves d 
the vocabulary. It supplies an endless round of whole- 
S some, constructive activity in which the prizes g o to”'' 
^ the fit and the alert. 
Business offers gray days and years, headaches, 
' tears and humiliation, but so do^ every other form 
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