THREE KINDS OF MEN
| "There are men in the world (says George A. Birmingham), a great many of them, who are capable of managing details with 'thoroughness and efficiency. These men make admirable lieutenants, and fill subordinate positions so well that towards tho end of their lives they are allowed to attend full-dress evening partios with medala and stars round tneir necks or pinned on their coats. "There arc also a good many men who are capable of conceiving great ideas and forming vast plans, but who have an unconquerable aversion to anything in tho way of a detail. Theso men gonerally end their days in obscure asylums, possibly in workhouses, and their ideas, after living for a while as subject-matter for jeste, perish un> j realised. " There is also a third kind of man, j fortunately a very rare kind. He is | capable of conceiving great ideas, and j has besides an insatiable delight in , working out details. He may end his days as a victorious general, or ovpn as an emperor, If he prefers a le«s ostentatious kind of reward, ho will die a millionaire." '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 13
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187THREE KINDS OF MEN Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 13
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