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Show CONQUER TROUBLES A great many men, whatever may have been their experience in life, are accustomed to complain of the wage they have received in the world. They ail the ears of those who have the misfortune to be their friends with lamentations respecting their own troubles. But there is no man that is not born into a world of trouble, and no man has ever attained to anything like the full stature of manhood who has not been ground, as it were, to powder by the hardships which he has encountered in this life. This is a world in which men are made, not by velvet, but by stone and iron handling. |