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PUBLISHED THE FIFTH OF EACH MONTH BY

COMMON-SENSE PUBLISHING CO. (NOT INC.)

150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK C. U. Johnson, Representative

Copyright 1906 by Common-Sense Publishing Co.
(Not Incorporated)

Entered at Chicago Post-Office as second-class matter
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Diligence and skill form a team that can pull the heaviest load up the steepest hill.

Intense desire for a certain attainment is the first step towards its realization.

To admit that you are defeated is to complete your own defeat.

Take a lesson from the bee-sip the sweet and pass lightly over the chaff.

If knowledge is power then ignorance is weakness; and yet many pride themselves on their ignorance.

The man who possesses an intense nature holds a key to success in either business or social life.

Learning without thought is of little value; you might as well stow volumes away in your library.

You have no right to act as judge unless you are capable of hearing both sides courteously and deciding impartially.

We set to work for the very thing we covet; and in working we often lose taste for that thing to attain which we began to work; finding interest in other things of greater value.

Russell Sage is at last taking his first vacation! What a lot he has missed during his 90 years spent in this old world of ours! True, he might have done worse with his money, but how infinitely better he might have done!

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A man who laughs heartily can be guilty of no great evil.

Business integrity is not like a rubber band -valued by its stretching propensities.

Your instinct will guide you aright if you give it a chance.

The finest thing in all the world is disinterested friendship.

Make the best of all that you have experienced a part of yourself.

A person who takes all and gives nothing is like a sponge that is of no use even after it is dead.

When Hope vanishes Fear takes her place. These are two guests seldom entertained at the same time.

What is the object of your existence? Unless it is pretty well defined, you will not advance far beyond your present position.

Arrange your work systematically and you will find that the business day is quite long enough to attend to its demands.

Opposition is a mighty good thing-when you beat it; good for you and good for the public.

No person is called upon to put up with an environment in which he cannot develop the best that is in him.

Be careful in your judgments-you may know what has been done but you have no way of knowing the things resisted.

It never pays to say mean cutting things; they may be passed over lightly at the time, but they are remembered, they rankle, and they may be the foundation of a disagreeable "come back" years hence.

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