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 without assuming the accompanying responsibilities, the employee who loafs on his job are all watching the game through the fence.

"It is easy for the man to talk," you say, "who has the money to get into the game; but how about the fellow who is broke?" An old neighbor of mine never saw a baseball game nor held office,,office, [sic] yet he lived an honorable happy life and died respected. One can walk to Savoy or stay at home and read O. Henry or work in the garden. It is more honorable not to see any of these games of life at all than to see them through the fence.

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