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B. C. Forbes Quotes:

Ocupation: Journalist

Life: May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954

Birthday: May 14

Death: May 6

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Father, Successful, Class, Robinson Crusoe

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