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Pushing to the Front — 67 episodes

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Title
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Foreword

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Chapter I: The Man and the Opportunity

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Chapter II: Wanted - a Man

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Chapter III: Boys with No Chance

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Chapter IV: The Country Boy

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Chapter V: Opportunities Where You Are

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Chapter VI: Possibilities in Spare Moments

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Chapter VII: How Poor Boys and Girls Go to College

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Chapter VIII: Your Opportunity Confronts You—What Will You Do with It?

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Chapter IX: Round Boys in Square Holes

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Chapter X: What Career?

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Chapter XI: Choosing a Vocation

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Chapter XII: Concentrated Energy

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Chapter XIII: The Triumphs of Enthusiasm

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Chapter XIV: "On Time," Or, The Triumph of Promptness

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Chapter XV: What a Good Appearance Will Do

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Chapter XVI: Personality as a Success Asset

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Chapter XVII: If You Can Talk Well

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Chapter XVIII: A Fortune in Good Manners

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Chapter XIX: Self-Consciousness and Timidity Foes To Success

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Chapter XX: Tact or Common Sense

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Chapter XXI: Enamored of Accuracy

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Chapter XXII: Do It to a Finish

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Chapter XXIII: The Reward of Persistence

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Chapter XXIV: Nerve—Grip, Pluck

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Chapter XXV: Clear Grit

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Chapter XXVI: Success Under Difficulties

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Chapter XXVII: Uses of Obstacles

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Chapter XXVIII: Decision

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Chapter XXIX: Observation as a Success Factor

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Chapter XXX: Self-Help

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Chapter XXXI: The Self-Improvement Habit

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Chapter XXXII: Raising of Values

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Chapter XXXIII: Public Speaking

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Chapter XXXIV: The Triumphs of the Common Virtues

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Chapter XXXV: Getting Aroused

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Chapter XXXVI: The Man with an Idea

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Chapter XXXVII: Dare

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Chapter XXXVIII: The Will and the Way

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Chapter XXXIX: One Unwavering Aim

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Chapter XL: Work and Wait

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Chapter XLI: The Might of Little Things

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Chapter XLII: The Salary You Do Not Find In Your Pay Envelope

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Chapter XLIII: Expect Great Things of Yourself

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Chapter XLIV: The Next Time You Think You are a Failure

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Chapter XLV: Stand for Something

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Chapter XLVI: Nature's Little Bill

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Chapter XLVII: Habit—The Servant,—The Master

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Chapter XLVIII: The Cigarette

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Chapter XLIX: The Power of Purity

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Chapter L: The Habit of Happiness

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Chapter LI: Put Beauty Into Your Life

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Chapter LII: Education by Absorption

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Chapter LIII: The Power of Suggestion

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Chapter LIV: The Curse of Worry

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Chapter LV: Take a Pleasant Thought to Bed with You

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Chapter LVI: The Conquest of Poverty

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Chapter LVII: A New Way of Bringing Up Children

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Chapter LVIII: The Home as a School of Good Manners

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Chapter LIX: Mother

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Chapter LX: Why So Many Married Women Deteriorate

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Chapter LXI: Thrift

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Chapter LXII: A College Education at Home

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Chapter LXIII: Discrimination in Reading

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Chapter LXIV: Reading a Spur to Ambition

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Chapter LXV: Why Some Succeed and Others Fail

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Chapter LXVI: Rich without Money