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Re: What is success?!
We ran this in the LatahEagle last week too... loved the story!
LuJane Nisse
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----- Original Message -----
From: Shahab Mesbah <moscadmin@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 9:12 AM
Subject: What is success?!
> 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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