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Show NOT AT ALL BAD REASONING Few Have Real Confidence in Advice That Is Handed Out by Acknowledged Acknowl-edged Failures. Harold Bell Wright, the novelist, said in an after-dinner speech in San Francisco: "After all, success financial success suc-cess Is the best proof of a book's merit. mer-it. , All good books, from 'Robinson Crusoe' down, have had phenomenal success made hundreds of thousands of dollars. "We all know this is true about financial success. We are all like the tramp who asked the old gentleman for the price of a glass of beer. " T have no money,' the old gentleman gentle-man said, 'but I will give you a little advice, friend.' "The tramp lit a cigarette butt and blew a contemptuous puff of smoke into the old gentleman's face. "'Well, if ye ain't got no money,' he said, 'yer advice can't be very; valuable.' " |