That's fine, and is all right so far as it goes, and in
your case it goes very far. Still, there remains more for you to do.
The public has built up for you a personality: now give that
personality to whatever interests you in contact with your immediate
fellow-men: something in your neighborhood, your city, or your State.
With one hand work and write to your national audience: let no fads
sway you. Hew close to the line. But, with the other hand, swing into
the life immediately around you. Think it over."
Bok did think it over. He was now realizing the dream of his life for
which he had worked: his means were sufficient to give his mother every
comfort; to install her in the most comfortable surroundings wherever
she chose to live; to make it possible for her to spend the winters in
the United States and the summers in the Netherlands, and thus to keep
in touch with her family and friends in both countries. He had for
years toiled unceasingly to reach this point: he felt he had now
achieved at least one goal.
He had now turned instinctively to the making of a home for himself.
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