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What is success?!
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- Subject: What is success?!
- From: "Shahab Mesbah" <moscadmin@moscow.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:12:51 -0700
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Here is a brief, but interesting story worth reading...
His name was Flemming and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while
trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from
a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his
waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free
himself. Farmer Flemming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and
terrifying death.
The next day a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced
himself as the father of the boy Farmer Flemming had saved.
"I want to repay you" said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied,
waving off the offer.
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes" the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education.
If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud
of." And that he did.
In time, Farmer Flemming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical
school in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the
noted Sir Alexander Flemming, the discoverer of penicillin.
Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved him?
Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said:
What goes around comes around, Work like you don't need the money, Love like
you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching.
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