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[00:09.856]Advice to a Young Man
[00:15.477]Remember, my son, you have to work.
[00:18.436]Whether you handle a pick or a pen,
[00:21.112]a wheel-barrow or a set of books,
[00:24.48]digging ditches or editing a paper,
[00:27.443]ringing an auction bell or writing funny things,
[00:30.812]you must work.
[00:32.539]If you look around you will see the men
[00:34.888]who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work
[00:38.823]are the men who work the hardest.
[00:41.731]Don’t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork.
[00:43.783]It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.
[00:50.355]They die sometimes,
[00:52.375]but it is because they quit work at six in the evening,
[00:55.421]and do not go home until two in the morning.
[00:57.702]It’s the interval that kills, my son.
[01:02.603]The work gives you an appetite for your meals;
[01:05.911]it lends solidity to your slumbers;
[01:08.699]it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.
[01:13.377]There are young men who do not work,
[01:15.831]but the world is not proud of them.
[01:18.599]It does not know their names;
[01:20.623]even it simply speaks of them as “old so-and-so’s boy”.
[01:26.580]Nobody likes them;
[01:27.795]the great, busy world doesn’t know that they are there.
[01:31.728]So find out what you want to be and do,
[01:34.715]and take off your coat and make a dust in the world.
[01:38.666]The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into,
[01:43.2]the sweeter will be your sleep,
[01:45.122]the brighter and happier your holidays,
[01:47.914]and the better satisfied will the world be with you.