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Title: Hidden Treasures
Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

Author: Harry A. Lewis

Release Date: December 20, 2006 [eBook #20151]

Language: English

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HIDDEN TREASURES

Or,

Why Some Succeed While Others Fail.

by

H. A. LEWIS.

Finely Illustrated.

"Not Failure, but low aim is crime."

Sold by Subscription Only.
Cleveland, Ohio:
Moses, Lewis & Co.
1888.
Copyright, 1887.
by Wright, Moses & Lewis.
All rights reserved.

PREFACE.

Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history
tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor.
As our title indicates, we shall endeavor to show "why some succeed
while others fail." Knowing that everybody desires success, and
recognizing the old adage, "Example is the best of teachers," we have
selected representative characters from the multitude of successful men
who have climbed the ladder of success, beginning at the bottom round.
These we have followed from childhood to manhood, dwelling at length on
the traits of character that have made th