"Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Nevertheless a certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. ...[I]t often happens that the grandson of a successful man will be more successful than the sonāthe spirit ...having lain fallow ...ready for fresh exertion in the grandson. A very successful man, moreover, has something of the hybrid in him; he is a new animal, arising from the coming together of... unfamiliar elements and... the reproduction of abnormal growths, whether animal or vegetable, is irregular and not to be depended upon..."
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