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What Goes Around...
His name
was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day,
while trying to
make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help
coming from a nearby bog.
He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to
his waist
in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and
struggling to free himself.
Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a
slow and terrifying
death.
The next day, a
fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's
sparse surroundings.
An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and
introduced himself as
the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want
to repay you," said
the nobleman. "You saved my son's life." "No, I can't
accept payment for
what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the
offer.At that moment,
the farmer's own son came to the door of the family
hovel. "Is that your
son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied
proudly. "I'll make
you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good
education. If the lad is
anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be
proud of."And that he did.
In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St.
Mary's Hospital
Medical School in London, and went on to become known
throughout the world as
the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of
Penicillin.Years afterward,
the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What
saved him?
Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph
Churchill. His son's name?
Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once
said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't
need the
money. Love like
you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's
watching.
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