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Risen from the Ranks

CHAPTER XII
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"It will be a great advantage to you." "I wish I had a chance to attend the Academy for a couple of years," said our hero, thoughtfully.
"I don't," said Clapp.

"What's the good of studying Latin and Greek, and all that rigmarole?
It won't bring you money, will it ?" "Yes," said Ferguson.

"Education will make a man more competent to earn money, at any rate in many cases.

I have a cousin, who used to go to school with me, but his father was able to send him to college.
He is now a lawyer in Boston, making four or five times my income.
But it isn't for the money alone that an education is worth having.
There is a pleasure in being educated." "So I think," said Harry.
"I don't see it," said Clapp.

"I wouldn't be a bookworm for anybody.
There's Walton learning French.


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