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Nothing fails like success.

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My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

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The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.

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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

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You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

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My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 6th, 1866

Died: August 9th, 1936

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