Advice to a Young Man
[00:12.53]Remember, my son, you have to work.
[00:18.11]Whether you handle a pick or a pen,
[00:21.16]a wheel-barrow or a set of books,
[00:23.91]digging ditches or editing a paper,
[00:27.07]ringing an auction bell or writing funny things,
[00:30.89]you must work.
[00:32.21]If you look around you will see the men
[00:34.85]who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work
[00:38.67]are the men who work the hardest.
[00:41.18]Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork.
[00:45.25]It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.
[00:49.61]They die sometimes,
[00:52.01]but it is because they quit work at six in the evening,
[00:55.41]and do not go home until two in the morning.
[00:58.58]It's the interval that kills, my son.
[01:02.29]The work gives you an appetite for your meals;
[01:05.47]it lends solidity to your slumbers;
[01:08.53]it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.
[01:12.57]There are young men who do not work,
[01:15.64]but the world is not proud of them.
[01:18.04]It does not know their names;
[01:20.68]even it simply speaks of them as old so-and-so's boy.
[01:25.49]Nobody likes them;
[01:27.77]the great, busy world doesn't know that they are there.
[01:31.18]So find out what you want to be and do,
[01:34.78]and take off your coat and make a dust in the world.
[01:38.06]The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into,
[01:42.87]the sweeter will be your sleep,
[01:45.17]the brighter and happier your holidays,
[01:47.56]and the better satisfied will the world be with you.
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