Excerpt from Think & Grow Rich, Chapter on Desire, as shared by Napoleon Hill from a poem by unknown author.

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"I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

"For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task.

"I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid."

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Something to think about.