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increase capable contribute pass by the more impoverish distinction hammer fortune paradox as place It is one of the 1 of civilization that the more opportunities are utilized, 2 new ones are thereby created. New openings are as easy to find 3 ever to those who do their best, although it is not so easy as formerly to obtain great 4 in the old lines, be cause the standard has advanced so much, and competition has so greatly 5 . "The world is no longer day" said Emerson, "but rather iron in the hands of its workers, and men have got to 6 out a place for themselves by steady and rugged blows." Thousands of men have made fortunes out of trifles which others 7 . As the bee gets honey from the same flower from which the spider gets poison, so some men will get a 8 out of the commonest and meanest things, as scraps of leather, cotton waste, slag, iron filings, from which others get only poverty and failure. There is scarcely a thing which 9 to the welfare and comfort of humanity, scarcely an article of household furniture, a kitchen utensil, an article of clothing or of food, that is not 10 of an improvement in which there may be a fortune.

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