Section 120. DO GOOD IN YOUR OWN SPHERE OF ACTION. II.
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Now[1], you may be getting a good living in a profession, and yet doing no good at all in the world, but (S. 6, N. 10) quite[2] the contrary. Keep[3] the latter before you as your one object, and you[4] will be right whether you make a living[5] or not; but[6] if you dwell on the other, you’ll very likely drop[7] into mere money-making, and let[8] the world take care of itself, for good or evil. Don’t be in a hurry[9] about finding your work in the world for yourself; you are not old enough to (S. 19, N. 7) judge for yourself yet, but just[10] look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try (S. 51, N. 13) to make things[11] a little better and honester there. You’ll[12] find plenty to keep your hand in at Oxford, or wherever else you [may] go. And[13] don’t be led away to think this part of the world important, and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that part is[14] most so, but every man may[15] do some honest work in his own corner.—Thomas Hughes, “Tom Brown’s School Days.”