English to Spanish Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

(Context from Art of Money Getting)
"In England, the business makes the man." If a man in that country is a mechanic or working-man , he is not recognized as a gentleman. On the occasion of my first appearance before Queen Victoria, the Duke of Wellington asked me what sphere in life General Tom Thumb's parents were in.

"His father is a carpenter," I replied.


"Oh! I had heard he was a gentleman," was the response of His Grace.


In this Republican country, the man makes the business. No matter whether he is a blacksmith, a shoemaker, a farmer, banker or lawyer, so long as his business is legitimate, he may be a gentleman. So any "legitimate" business is a double blessing it helps the man engaged in it, and also helps others. The Farmer supports his own family, but he also benefits the merchant or mechanic who needs the products of his farm. The tailor not only makes a living by his trade, but he also benefits the farmer, the clergyman and others who cannot make their own clothing. But all these classes often may be gentlemen.


The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

The college-student who was about graduating, said to an old lawyer:


"I have not yet decided which profession I will fol­ low. Is your profession full?"

"The basement is much crowded, but there is plenty of room up-stairs," was the witty and truth­ful reply.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do. As a nation, Americans are too superficial-they are striving to get rich quickly, and do not generally do their business as substantially and thoroughly as they should, but whoever excels all others in his own line, if his habits are good and his integrity undoubted, cannot fail to secure abundant patron­ age, and the wealth that naturally follows. Let your motto then always be "Excelsior," for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.