Oh, certainly, it would be unfair for us grown-ups to expect you, a mere inexperienced youth, to win without giving you a fair opportunity.
But what is a fair opportunity?
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.—Gibbon.
Opinions regarding what is best for the making of a boy differ greatly. Some assert that a child born with a silver spoon in its mouth is not likely to breathe as deeply and develop as well as one that is born without any such hindrance to full respiration.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.—Bacon.
Kind parents, a good home training, a chance to go to school, influential friends, good health, and some one to stand between you and the hard knocks of the world all serve to make a boy’s surroundings truly enviable. Under such conditions any boy ought to win. Yet some boys have won without these advantages.
The two noblest things are sweetness and light.—Swift.
The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading.—Paley.
The world belongs to the energetic.—Emerson.
He who hurts others injures himself; he who helps others advances his own interests.—Buddha.