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We proudly present this collection of classic self-help works on how to attract success and money in your life.
CONTENTS:
1. Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich
2. Benjamin Franklin – The Way to Wealth
3. Charles F. Haanel – The Master Key System
4. Florence Scovel Shinn – The Game of Life and How to Play it
5. Wallace D. Wattles – How to Get What You Want
6. Wallace D. Wattles – The Science of Getting Rich
7. Wallace D. Wattles – The Science of Being Well
8. Wallace D. Wattles – The Science of Being Great
9. P.T. Barnum – The Art of Money Getting
10. Dale Carnegie – The Art of Public Speaking
11. James Allen – As A Man Thinketh
12. James Allen – From Poverty to Power
13. James Allen – Eight Pillars of Prosperity
14. James Allen – Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success
15. James Allen – Men and Systems
16. James Allen – Above Life's Turmoil
17. James Allen – The Life Triumphant
18. Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
19. Khalil Gibran – The Prophet
20. Orison Swett Marden & Abner Bayley – An Iron Will
21. Orison Swett Marden – Ambition and Success
22. Orison Swett Marden – The Victorious Attitude
23. Orison Swett Marden – Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power
24. Orison Swett Marden – Pushing to the Front
25. Orison Swett Marden – How to Succeed
26. Orison Swett Marden – Cheerfulness As a Life Power
27. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
28. Henry Thomas Hamblin – Within You is the Power
29. William Crosbie Hunter – Dollars and Sense
30. William Crosbie Hunter – Evening Round-Up
31. Joseph Murphy – The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
32. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance
33. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Compensation
34. Henry H. Brown – Concentration: The Road to Success
35. Henry H. Brown – Dollars Want Me
36. Russell H. Conwell – Acres of Diamonds
37. Russell H. Conwell – The Key to Success
38. Russell H. Conwell – What You Can Do With Your Will Power
39. Russell H. Conwell – Every Man is Own University
40. William Atkinson – The Art of Logical Thinking
41. William Atkinson – The Psychology of Salesmanship
42. B.F. Austin – How to Make Money
43. H.A. Lewis – Hidden Treasure
44. L.W. Rogers – Self-Development and the Way to Power
45. Douglas Fairbanks – Laugh and Live
46. Douglas Fairbanks – Making Life Worth While
47. Sun Tzu – The Art of War
48. Samuel Smiles – Character
49. Samuel Smiles – Thrift
50. Samuel Smiles – Self-Help

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It is insufferable effrontery for any man to appear before an audience who persists in driving the h out of happiness, home and heaven, and, to paraphrase Waldo Messaros, will not let it rest in hell. He who does not show enough self-knowledge to see in himself such glaring faults, nor enough self-mastery to correct them, has no business to instruct others. If he can do no better, he should be silent. If he will do no better, he should also be silent.

Barring incurable physical defects—and few are incurable nowadays—the whole matter is one of will. The catalogue of those who have done the impossible by faithful work is as inspiring as a roll-call of warriors. "The less there is of you," says Nathan Sheppard, "the more need for you to make the most of what there is of you."

Articulation

Articulation is the forming and joining of the elementary sounds of speech. It seems an appalling task to utter articulately the third-of-a million words that go to make up our English vocabulary, but the way to make a beginning is really simple: learn to utter correctly, and with easy change from one to the other, each of the forty-four elementary sounds in our language .

The reasons why articulation is so painfully slurred by a great many public speakers are four: ignorance of the elemental sounds; failure to discriminate between sounds nearly alike; a slovenly, lazy use of the vocal organs; and a torpid will. Anyone who is still master of himself will know how to handle each of these defects.

The vowel sounds are the most vexing source of errors, especially where diphthongs are found. Who has not heard such errors as are hit off in this inimitable verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes:

Learning condemns beyond the reach of hope The careless lips that speak of s?ap for s?ap; Her edict exiles from her fair abode The clownish voice that utters r?ad for r?ad; Less stern to him who calls his c?at, a c?at And steers his b?at believing it a b?at. She pardoned one, our classic city's boast. Who said at Cambridge, m?st instead of m?st, But knit her brows and stamped her angry foot To hear a Teacher call a r??t a r??t.

The foregoing examples are all monosyllables, but bad articulation is frequently the result of joining sounds that do not belong together. For example, no one finds it difficult to say beauty , but many persist in pronouncing duty as though it were spelled either dooty or juty . It is not only from untaught speakers that we hear such slovenly articulations as colyum for column , and pritty for pretty , but even great orators occasionally offend quite as unblushingly as less noted mortals.

Nearly all such are errors of carelessness, not of pure ignorance—of carelessness because the ear never tries to hear what the lips articulate. It must be exasperating to a foreigner to find that the elemental sound ou gives him no hint for the pronunciation of bough , cough , rough , thorough , and through , and we can well forgive even a man of culture who occasionally loses his way amidst the intricacies of English articulation, but there can be no excuse for the slovenly utterance of the simple vowel sounds which form at once the life and the beauty of our language. He who is too lazy to speak distinctly should hold his tongue.

The consonant sounds occasion serious trouble only for those who do not look with care at the spelling of words about to be pronounced. Nothing but carelessness can account for saying Jacop , Babtist , sevem , alwus , or sadisfy .

"He that hath yaws to yaw, let him yaw," is the rendering which an Anglophobiac clergyman gave of the familiar scripture, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." After hearing the name of Sir Humphry Davy pronounced, a Frenchman who wished to write to the eminent Englishman thus addressed the letter: "Serum Fridavi."

Accentuation

Accentuation is the stressing of the proper syllables in words. This it is that is popularly called pronunciation . For instance, we properly say that a word is mispronounced when it is accented in'-vite instead of in-vite' , though it is really an offense against only one form of pronunciation—accentuation.

It is the work of a lifetime to learn the accents of a large vocabulary and to keep pace with changing usage; but an alert ear, the study of word-origins, and the dictionary habit, will prove to be mighty helpers in a task that can never be finally completed.

Enunciation

Correct enunciation is the complete utterance of all the sounds of a syllable or a word. Wrong articulation gives the wrong sound to the vowel or vowels of a word or a syllable, as doo for dew ; or unites two sounds improperly, as hully for wholly . Wrong enunciation is the incomplete utterance of a syllable or a word, the sound omitted or added being usually consonantal. To say needcessity instead of necessity is a wrong articulation; to say doin for doing is improper enunciation. The one articulates—that is, joints—two sounds that should not be joined, and thus gives the word a positively wrong sound; the other fails to touch all the sounds in the word, and in that particular way also sounds the word incorrectly.

"My tex' may be foun' in the fif' and six' verses of the secon' chapter of Titus; and the subjec' of my discourse is 'The Gover'ment of ar Homes.'"

What did this preacher do with his final consonants? This slovenly dropping of essential sounds is as offensive as the common habit of running words together so that they lose their individuality and distinctness. Lighten dark , uppen down , doncher know , partic'lar , zamination , are all too common to need comment.

Imperfect enunciation is due to lack of attention and to lazy lips. It can be corrected by resolutely attending to the formation of syllables as they are uttered. Flexible lips will enunciate difficult combinations of sounds without slighting any of them, but such flexibility cannot be attained except by habitually uttering words with distinctness and accuracy. A daily exercise in enunciating a series of sounds will in a short time give flexibility to the lips and alertness to the mind, so that no word will be uttered without receiving its due complement of sound.

Returning to our definition, we see that when the sounds of a word are properly articulated, the right syllables accented, and full value given to each sound in its enunciation, we have correct pronunciation. Perhaps one word of caution is needed here, lest any one, anxious to bring out clearly every sound, should overdo the matter and neglect the unity and smoothness of pronunciation. Be careful not to bring syllables into so much prominence as to make words seem long and angular. The joints must be kept decently dressed.

Before delivery, do not fail to go over your manuscript and note every sound that may possibly be mispronounced. Consult the dictionary and make assurance doubly sure. If the arrangement of words is unfavorable to clear enunciation, change either words or order and do not rest until you can follow Hamlet's directions to the players.

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

1. Practise repeating the following rapidly, paying particular attention to the consonants.

"Foolish Flavius, flushing feverishly, fiercely found fault with Flora's frivolity."

Mary's matchless mimicry makes much mischief.

Seated on shining shale she sells sea shells.

You youngsters yielded your youthful yule-tide yearnings yesterday.

2. Sound the l in each of the following words, repeated in sequence:

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