"Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that
putteth it off," says the Bible, yet that is precisely what we are doing
when we smile at the sally of some envious dealer about the "luck" of
our grocer--that "nothing succeeds as well as success." But the landlord
goes on renting his store-room, and thanking his stars that the fools
are not all dead yet. Do not desire a position two grades ahead of you.
The one that is next to you is your proper goal. Over the shoulder of
the companion who holds it you can get many a glance long before your
chance comes to do the work, and, even then, what looked so very easy to
you before it came your turn to do it, will now "shoot light horrors
through you." In a large measure people are bought at their own prices.
If they are worth those figures, their fortune is made. A celebrated
painter was once asked how he mixed his colors. He replied that