"That's pretty
good advice, John, excellent advice. I rather think I will try you, even
without the references."
John has been with him six years, and last spring was admitted to the bar.
"Do you intend taking that young man into partnership?" asked a friend
lately.
"Yes, I do. I could not get along without John; he is my right-hand man!"
exclaimed the lawyer, heartily.
And John always says the best reference he ever had was his mother's good
advice and honest praise.
--_Selected_.
AN HOUR A DAY FOR A YEAR
"Only an hour a day!" that does not seem much; it hardly seems worth
mentioning.
But let us consider a little. An hour a day may mean more than we think. In
a year it represents three hundred and sixty-five hours, and, allowing
sixteen hours for a waking day, three hundred and sixty-five hours gives
nearly twenty-three days,--waking days, too, which is worth taking note of,
not days one third of which is spent in necessary sleep.
Now, time is a possession to be parted with for something else; indeed, it
forms a large part of the capital with which we trade.
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