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I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that...
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To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would...
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in...
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on...
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You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of...
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at...
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race...