Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times •out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 331882Full view - About this book
| Education - 1884 - 604 pages
...intelligent labor and the worth and respectability of laboring men." Garfield once said in an address: " Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine...happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who... | |
| Northwest, Pacific - 1920 - 734 pages
...uncomfortable, as I can estify, but nine times out of ten the thing that can happen to a young p»n is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In |JI my acquaintance I never knew a man be drowned who was worth saving. — ames A. Garfleld. The Walla... | |
| Freemasonry - 1922 - 836 pages
...ignis fatuus, you may follow it to ruin, never to success. Poverty is hard, which I can testify, but the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be cast overboard and made to sink or swim for himself. In all my experience, I never knew a man to drown... | |
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