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Andrew Carnegie:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Excerpt 8

Andrew Carnegie《Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie》· Chapter II · Leadership

One of the trials of my boy's life at school in Dunfermline was committing to memory two double verses of the Psalms which I had to recite daily. My plan was not to look at the psalm until I had started for school. It was not more than five or six minutes' slow walk, but I could readily master the task in that time, and, as the psalm was the first lesson, I was prepared and passed through the ordeal successfully. Had I been asked to repeat the psalm thirty minutes afterwards the attempt would, I fear, have ended in disastrous failure.

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