How to Analyze People on Sight

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failures. Between these extremes lie all the rest--from those who live
near the ragged edge of Down-and-Out-Land to those who storm the doors
of the House of Greatness.

Again, between these, and making up the large majority, are the myriads
of laborers, clerks, small business men, housekeepers--that
myriad-headed mass known as "the back bone of the world."

Yet the great distance from the lower layer to the tip-top peak is not
insurmountable. Many have covered it almost overnight.


A Favorite Fallacy

For fame is not due, as we have been led to believe, solely to years
of plodding toil. A thousand years of labor could never have produced
an Edison, a Marconi, a Curie, a Rockefeller, a Roosevelt, a Wilson, a