WANTED—AN EASY BERTH.
Looking down ■ the advertisement columns of a newspaper, how often does one come across something like this:— " \ young man desires a light situation . The late Henry Ward Beecher once got a letter from such a youth, asking him to find an easy berth. Beecher replied as follows:—-" you wish an easy berth, don't be an editor. Do not try the law. Do not think of the ministry. Avoid school-keeping. Let alone all ships, stores, shops, merchandise. Abhor politics. Don t practice medicine. Be not a farmer nor mechanic; neither be a soldier nor sailor. Don't work. Don't study. Don't think. None of these are easy. Oh, my friend ! you have come into a hard world- I know of but one easy place in it, and that is the grave!"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15237, 26 February 1913, Page 11
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132WANTED—AN EASY BERTH. New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15237, 26 February 1913, Page 11
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