Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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George Horace Lorimer. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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George Horace Lorimer

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Does a College education pay? Does it pay to feed in pork trimmings at five cents a pound at the hopper and draw out nice, cunning, little “country” sausages at twenty cents a pound at the other end? Does it pay to take a steer that’s been running loose on the range and living on cactus and petrified wood till he’s just a bunch of barb-wire and sole-leather, and feed him corn till he’s just a solid hunk of porterhouse steak and oleo oil?

You bet it pays. Anything that trains a boy to think and to think quick pays; anything that teaches a boy to get the answer before the other fellow gets through biting the pencil, pays.

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