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In this sentence and its supporting paragraph, Chesterton is challenging the opinion held by some people, illustrated by self-help books. This belief is that one can distinguish success from non-success, and that success is the same thing for all people.
Chesterton’s examples of success are taken from ordinary people. He argues that any person who is alive has succeeded in living—a donkey is successful because it is what it is supposed to be. He also rejects the idea that success is only financial or defined by wealth. Instead of teaching how to be successful, Chesterton says these books "teach people to be snobbish; they . . . spread a sort of evil poetry of worldliness." He suggests a more reasonable goal for a poor man is to do good work, which "may make him a good workman."
Chesterton concludes that books about success set up a false and harmful goal that isn’t good or realistic for all to follow, partly because it ignores basic ideas of what success means.
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