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America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat

CHAPTER 2
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Every man considers himself the equal of every other, and a young man who is ambitious will not rest until he reaches the top of his profession or trade.

Thousands of Americans who were once very poor, have become millionaires or multi-millionaires.

Many of them had no college education, they taught themselves, and some of them have become both literary and scholarly.

A college or university education does not necessarily make a man learned; it only gives him the opportunity to learn.

It is said that some college men have proven themselves to be quite ignorant, or rather that they do not know so much as those who have been self-taught.


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