Chapter 15 - The Master of Your Fate
"A craven hung along the battle's edge,
And thought, 'Had I a sword of keener steel
That blue blade that the king's son bears,---but this blunt thing---!'
And lowering crept away and left the field.
Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead
And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,
And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,
And saved a great cause that heroic day."
---Edward Rowland Sill.
Where will you be at 65? Five men in six at the age of 65 are living on charity. Just one in twenty is able to live without working at 65.
That is what the American Bankers Association found when it took one hundred
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