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Pushing to the Front

CHAPTER XX
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"No matter, I'll call at another time." Louis Philippe said he was the only sovereign in Europe fit to govern, for he could black his own boots.

The world is full of men and women apparently splendidly endowed and highly educated, yet who can scarcely get a living.
Not long ago three college graduates were found working on a sheep farm in Australia, one from Oxford, one from Cambridge, and the other from a German University,--college men tending brutes! Trained to lead men, they drove sheep.

The owner of the farm was an ignorant, coarse sheep-raiser.

He knew nothing of books or theories, but he knew sheep.
His three hired graduates could speak foreign languages and discuss theories of political economy and philosophy, but he could make money.
He could talk about nothing but sheep and farm; but he had made a fortune, while the college men could scarcely get a living.

Even the University could not supply common sense.


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