Excerpt from The Compendium of Everyday Wants, or Practical Information for the Millions: A Complete Educator and Legal Advisor, a Complete Household Guide, a Complete Guide to Health, and a Treasury of General Information; Appropriately Arranged in Departments But our friend was not satisfied with mediocrity. Realizing that he could accomplish more in life with a more liberal educa tion, he decided to enter college, where he improved his time as only the self-educated and self-made man can fully appreciate. It is especially gratifying to the writer that his close acquaintance and advice had no small influence on the author of this book, at this particular time in his life, when he encouraged him to step aside from the active work in which he had engaged, to prepare for a higher field than his education at that time would warrant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.