Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-30
Be Patient with FOOls=== That
Is a Most Important Art
If We're Not for 'the Fools" the Wise Man Would Be Less
Prosperous He Night Worry.
Copyright.

Copyright 1881
There lived in the very wse powerful man, whose
son, just out of college, running newspaper.
The in his early twenties complained bitterly his
father that he had frequently deal with fools who could
grasp idea.
The father replied solemnly You learn be patient
with fools my There many of them; they form large
part of the population.
If you don't understand them, you can't understand the
population And my boy and might not be well off
are if there fewer fools in the world.
There wisdom boiled down into few words readers
Take the wisdom to yourself, and make it useful.
Let all dearly beloved patient foos-and
especially with those that majestic self concet mis-
akenly THINK fools happens sometimes in this queer
world that the individual take for fool something quite
> different
All of those who looked Newton greatest mathema
can that lived sad when boy that he fool
and always would be- He ussing the sand instead of
doing something else They didn't know that he working
out mathematical problems the dust with piece of stick
Nicholson of the University of Chicago of the greatest
living scientists and winner the Nobel prize Annapolis
with other young gentlemen studying be fierce naval fighter
The other young gentlemen nick named him Feeble Efforts
Nobody will remember any of THEM, unless it is because
they at the Naval Academy WITH NICHOLSON He
rected knowledge the speed of light and thus
rected all of distances space And incidental
y he is just concluding experiments testing the rgidty of the
EARTH which demonstrates the fact that this earth is twice
IL
Interesting to those that have brains.
Let u.s. have said learn be patient with FOOLS
also whenever possible let learn realize that ourselves
and not the other man who is a fool-very often
There fools in the worldmany of them millions of them
But there only real kind of fool And he is the
vino patient free from self conceit willing
The who will learn and who will be patient is
patient with FOOLS practcng patience of the
greatest possible value.
Genius is nothing but patience, AND POWER.
The patience without the mental power produce
genius.
But the mental power matter great trans
late itself into the work that call genius the
infinite capacity for taking pains which patience
Be patient with FOOLS for they the majority. And we
must make living from the majority get applause
the majority and win victories the majority.
Be patient with FOOLS also dearly beloved men, because
this world would be uncomfortable for you wise men,
not SO many fools in it,
There many successful and ninety one
hundred really successful BECAUSE NOBODY GAVE
THEM SERIOUS COMPETITION
You put your finger the map hit any little town.
and find in it prosperous, successful newspaper
GIVE 1T COMPETITION and you six months
And in the same town. Main street you viii find very
prosperous, successful merchant.
Give him the such competition as bigger man could
give hmand you might And him driving the bigger mans
delivery wagon, if he hadn saved up money.
We succeed because the fools plentiful soft and easv
just the woodlands deep the trees are pen
tful soft and easy
Give the steel to cut and the story will different and
the choppers will ache.
Take away the FOOLS who think thew can succeed
without effort and life will become harder difficult prob
lem.
Study the fool; be patient with him. you him. you
know more than half of the human
And study yourself AND DON'T BE PATIENT WITH
YOURSELF and don't be afraid to call yourself fool
Your criticism should the fool features of vour
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the fools and the drunkards from among the people