In 'Huckleberry Finn,'
I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.
He was ignorant, unwashed,
insufficiently fed;
but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
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In 'Huckleberry Finn,'
I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.
He was ignorant, unwashed,
insufficiently fed;
but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if
they were great and noble.
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go,
what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother
and to marry Rachel?
The solution to my problem was only days away
in the hands of a tough, shrewd,
courageous man called Branch Rickey,
the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
If you always put limits on everything you do,
physical or anything else,
it will spread into your work and into your life.