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discouraged Jimmy who crawled into his bed to spend a sleepless night of worry
and vain regret, the principal object of his regret being that he was not the son of
a blacksmith who had taught him how to shoe horses and who at the same time
had been too poor to send him to college.
Long since there had been driven into his mind the conviction that for any
practical purpose in life a higher education was as useless as the proverbial fifth
wheel to the coach.
"
And even," mused Jimmy, "if I had graduated at the head of my class, I would be
no better off than I am now."
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