CONCEIT
Precis : Citizens of different countries suffer from conceit. They suffer
from superiority complex. They overrate themselves and their countries, but
underrate other. Really, however, no country is fully good or bad. Besides, we
should be receptive to the good and indifferent to the bad. We should surely
take even the good found in others.
Example-4
Occasions cannot make spurs for young men. If you expect to wear spurs
you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them to your
heels before you go into the fight. Any success you may achieve is not worth
having unless you fight for it. Whatever you win in life you must conquer by
your own efforts, and then it is yours a part of yourself. Let not poverty stand
as an obstacle in your way. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify, but nine
times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed
overboard, and compelled to sink or swin for himself. In all my acquaitances !
have never known one to be drowned who was worth saving.... To a young man
should be permanently commanded. You must not continue to be employed,
you must be employer. You must be promoted from the ranks to a command,
who has in himself the magnificent possibilities of life it is not fitting that he
go and find it, and command it. You can at least command a horse and there
can be generalization of them, and may carve out a fortune with them.
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