368. A False Standard of Success

It is not necessary to be rich, nor powerful, nor great, to be a

success; and neither is it necessary to have your name between the

putrid lips of rumor to be great. We have had a false standard of

success. In the years when I was a little boy we read in our books that

no fellow was a success that did not make a fortune or get a big office,

and he generally was a man that slept about three hours a night. They

never put down in the books the gentlemen who succeeded in life and yet

slept all they wanted to. We have had a wrong standard.

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