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Success

SUCCESS! – I just now find in a common, poor sort of dictionary, the dictionary everyone uses without fear of too much information, that Success may be defined as “prosperity,” or ” a fortunate result” – prosperity and good fortune – a fortune probably the full meaning. I had not searched the dictionary intent on knowledge, but opened it by chance while thinking of the following lines by some unknown writer:-

” Success:

Prometheus writhing on his rock of pain,

With his eternal chain,

And with Jove’s Vulture gnawing at his heart.

” Success:

In cultured Athens, in yon cell where lies

Old Socrates the Wise;-

Drink up the hemlock dregs, and so depart!”

It would seem, then, that there are two kinds of success; since the Promethean practice and the theory of Socrates do not agree with the

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