Word: gambetta
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...September advice is cheap and is only too likely to be valued accordingly. "You must not be too frequent patrons of the Cambridge-Boston subway" explains one advisor, inspired by a sudden revolation of truth, while a second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...
...Observation, Introspection and Biography; 2) School and College Records; 3) Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier...
...ophile Delcassé started life as writer on foreign politics for Gambetta's "La Republique Française." He became a Deputy in 1889 Following his ejection from the Foreign office by the Kaiser, he was Minister of Marine until 1913; from 1913-1914 he was Ambassador to Russia; then, returned to the conduct of the Foreign Office for one brief year. He received the Legion of Honor in 1887 and Order of St. Andrew, Russia...
...this industrial machine to get started without capital or credit? Lenin's advice, echoing Gambetta's famous saying, "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail", is excellent--the whole world needs it--but first of all it needs cash and credit. A lottery, as is now proposed, is a poor way to go about getting money, and refusal to recognize past obligations a poor way to go about getting credit. This is true even under a Government that pretends to be of the Workers, by the Workers and for the Workers. The New York Times...
...Gambetta, one of the first statesmen of the French republic, prophesied that the Mediterranean was to be the theatre of French action, and his prediction has been amply justified. France is today essentially a Mediterranean power...