Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

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Thank you. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby, published in 1917.

Success in life depends largely on endurance. An endurance is dependent upon a sound body and a

determined will. There are many flabby wills housed in a physically sound body.

When this happens, there is little endurance, and as a consequence, there is not much hill climbing for the individual.

By inheritance, human beings are lazy. Not many generations ago, our ancestry worked only enough to obtain the necessary food to sustain

life and an occasional fig leaf for a dress suit.

Then the press of circumstances made it an imperative that we get out and hustle.

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