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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Source: In The Executives Quotation Book, ed. by James Charlton, 1993.
-- James A Garfield, (Nov 19 1831-1881), US president, lay preacher; He was the U.S.'s 20th president, but was shot in a railway station after only four months in office; died 80 days later.

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