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Dr. Seuss was a failure to start, but he soon learned to follow his heart. He wrote books about things that he knew, and soon enough, his book sales flew. Although the doc is now long passed, his stories are still selling fast. So now today the real question is: what can we learn from a writer in the biz? Is it love, friendship, or compassion? Let's have a debate in orderly fashion.

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Who's Seuss? a la Shmoop. This famed creator of whats-its and whose-its
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Was born one March day in South Massachusetts. It happened in Springfield in 1904
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When sweet Mrs. Geisel, a child she bore. As Teddy got older, his mom taught him rhyming
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And pacing and meter -- it was all in the timing.
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When it came time for college, he went off to Dartmouth

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Although his dear parents weren't easy to part with.
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It was there that his birth name got much, much less use...
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...when he chose to replace it with the moniker "Seuss."
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In the ad game and filmmaking, Seuss was a dabbler
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He was always verbose; you could call him a babbler.
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He tried his hand at political cartooning And slowly but surely his career was ballooning
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To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street Was the first ever book that Seuss did complete
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He wasn't a hit right off of the bat But things got much better with The Cat in
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the Hat. From that point on, he found fame and renown
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He was hands-down the rhymiest rhymer in town. Random House owned him from that day on
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And they still sell his books now that Teddy is gone.
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