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The Investment of Influence

CHAPTER VI
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With long patience man must work and also wait.
In the world of business, also, the time element exerts striking influence.

To-day our land is filled with men who have sown the seed of thought and purpose, but whose harvest is of so high a quality that with long patience must they wait for the fruition.

How pathetic the reverses of the last four years.

The condition of our land as to the overthrows of its leaders answers to the condition in Poland when Kossuth and his fellow patriots, accustomed to life's comforts and its luxuries, went forth penniless exiles to accustom themselves to menial toil, to hardship and extreme poverty.

His heart must be of iron who can behold those who have been leaders of the industrial column, who now stand aside and see the multitude sweep by.


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