How to be Nobody | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1875

How to be Nobody.

Young man, it is easy to be nobody. Go to the drinking saloon to spend your leisure. You need not drink much now—just a little beer, or some other drink. In the meantime, play checkers, dominoes, or something else, to consume time, that you may be sure not to read any useful book; or if you do read, let it be the “dime novels” of the day. Thus go on, keeping your stomach full, head empty, and yourself playing time-killing games, and in a few years you will be nobody, unless you should turn out to be a drunkard or a professional gambler, either of which is worse than being nobody.