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Excerpt from Stories of Achievement, Vol. 1 It is in the hope that a few anecdotes and ex tracts from the lives of great men would prove inspiring, that these Stories of Achievement have been collected. and as an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept, it will be found that this set contains five volumes of actual history taken from life, to a single volume of inspiration and suggestion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.