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The University of Hard Knocks

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The University of Hard Knocks

Ralph Albert Parlette

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Tuition is bumps, and everybody enrolls eventually. Parlette's beloved lecture on the university of hard knocks asks whether you brought a bucket for what life pours out, and why the shakedowns of experience promote us. Delivered thousands of times on the lecture circuit and printed by popular demand. Graduate laughing.

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111 chapters

  1. 1The University of Hard Knocks
  2. 2Ralph Parlette
  3. 3The School That Completes Our Education
  4. 4Why It Is Printed
  5. 5Contents
  6. 6The University of Hard Knocks
  7. 7Some Preliminary Remarks
  8. 8Can Only Pull the Plug!
  9. 9Did You Bring a Bucket?
  10. 10What It's All About
  11. 11To Everybody in My Audience
  12. 12The University of Hard Knocks
  13. 13Chapter I The Books Are Bumps
  14. 14The Need of the Bumps
  15. 15The Two Colleges
  16. 16Chapter II
  17. 17The College of Needless Knocks The Bumps That We Bump Into
  18. 18Teaching a Wilful Child

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