Are You a Leaner or a Lifter? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 12, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 36.

Are You a Leaner or a Lifter?

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No! the two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean. Where'er you go you will find the world's masses Are always divided in just these two classes; And, oddly enough, you find, I ween, There is only one lifter to twenty who lean. In what class are you? Are you easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road? Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear Your portion of labor and worry and care? —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.