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- Dear Pierrepont: No, I can't say that I think anything
- of your post-graduate coorse idea. You're not going to be a poet
- or a professer, but a packer, and the place to take a
- post-graduate course for that calling is in the packing-house.
- Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both
- kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all
- practice. Itss the fellow who knows enough about practise to test
- his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead,
- and finds a fiar margin of profit in shoving it.
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- Theres a chance for everything you have learned, from
- Latin to poetry, in the packing business, though we don't use
- much poetry here except in our street-car ads, and about the only
- time our products are given Latin names is when the State Board
- of Health condemns them. So I think you'll find it safe to go
- short a little on the frills of education; if you want them bad
- enough you'll find a way to pick them up latre after bisiness
- hours.
-
- From ...
- LETTERS FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS
- SON by George Horace Lorimer, 1901
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