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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

Everybody helps him who helps himself, FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 33 nothing succeeds like success, and the only man everybody wants to lend money to is the Banker. So, after all, there's nothing to it. What-ever you do, you must do it yourself-you must begin, anyway. You study too much about how to suc­ceed, you consult other people's opinions, you are long on referendum and short on initiative. Nobody showed Marshall Field how to do business. Nobody was responsible for John D. Rockefeller's money except John D. Rockefeller himself. Nobody had to stand by and pat Admiral Dewey on the back and tell him to cheer up, when he went after the Spanish fleet at Manila. And nobody cranked up Mark Twain, or Lloyd George. They had Self-Starters. Go get you one ! 34 QUAND MEME! SARAH BERNHARDT-the divine SARAH! Some workers live long enough to reap the harvest of their achievement. To criti­cize them is absurd, to praise them is super­fluous, no advertisement whether by friend or enemy can matter much. Time has underwritten them. We go to

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