LINCOLN

"One day a mover who was driving out to Iowa halted his covered wagon in front of the Lincoln & Berry store.  The roads were soft, his horses were tired, and the mover decided to lighten his load.  So he sold Lincoln a barrel of household plunder.  Lincoln didn't want the plunder, but he felt sorry for the horses;  he paid the mover fifty cents, and without examining the barrel rolled it into the back room of the store.
A fortnight later he emptied the contents of the barrel out on the floor, idly curious to see what he had bought.  There, at the bottom of the rubbish, he found a complete edition of Blackstone's Commentaries on Law; and started to read...And the more he read, the more interested he became.  Never before had he been so absorbed in a book.  He read until he had devoured all four volumes.
Then he made a momentous decision:  he would be a lawyer."

~ Lincoln The Unknown, Dale Carnegie,Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc.,1932.

Tomorrow:  Lincoln walks twenty miles studying as he goes.
(A. Lincoln b. Feb. 12, 1809 d. April 15, 1865)