REAL JOY OF LIFE
LIES IN ACHIEVEMENT,
"It is up to all the boys and girls who are present in this theatre today to achieve something," said Mr Bransby Williams, the celebrated actor, when addressing a large assemblage of secondary school pupils in Dunedin. "One's joy in life is achievement," he continued "and because a boy or girl is not born of rich parents is no reason why he ,or she should not achieve something in the world. There is no room for the drone. Bees have no use for the drone. They hunt him out. Shakespeare was a poor man, but the whole world was proud of his works. Edison was a poor boy who worked on' a railway station platform, but he was one of the wonder men of the present day. Lloyd George was once a poor, half-starved boy in the hills of Wales, but he was one of the greatest men of the day. Admiral Sims, of the United States Navy, was once a ragged boy who sold newspapers in New York. All these men had risen to fame as the result of their determination to grasp achievement, and once grasped they had clung to it."
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1574, 15 November 1924, Page 3
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