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, totally lacking in nerves and seems to think he has all eternity to finish what he is doing. He stands pain wonderfully, toils endlessly, accomplishes little but always a placid look remains upon his face like a dozing Buddha. In his philosophy he leads the world. Some of his proverbs have never been equalled. 'Tens of years,' he has written, 'are required to raise a harvest of trees, but hundreds of years are required to raise a crop of men.'"