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> [Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/discard-the-protective-rags-of-that-vice-which-you-called-a-virtue/)

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## More by John Galt

> [From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/from-the-time-of-the-north-briton-of-the-unprincipled-wilkes-a-notion/)

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> [In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/in-a-word-man-in-london-is-not-quite-so-good-a-creature-as-he-is-out/)

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> [To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/to-rule-without-being-felt-is-the-great-mystery-of-policy/)

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> [Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/your-mind-is-your-only-judge-of-truth-and-if-others-dissent-from-your/)

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> [Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/every-form-of-causeless-self-doubt-every-feeling-of-inferiority-and/)

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> [All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/all-property-and-all-forms-of-wealth-are-produced-by-man-s-mind-and/)

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> [A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/a-trader-does-not-squander-his-body-as-fodder-or-his-soul-as-alms/)

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> [Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/man-cannot-survive-except-by-gaining-knowledge-and-reason-is-his-only/)

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> [A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/a-trader-is-a-man-who-earns-what-he-gets-and-does-not-give-or-take-2/)

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> [I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/i-do-not-enter-discussions-with-neighbors-who-think-they-can-forbid/)

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> [ I want every fan of Rand to hear \[Polaha\] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/i-want-every-fan-of-rand-to-hear-polaha-say-the-classic-galt-phrase-i/)

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> [If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/if-enjoyment-is-a-value-why-is-it-moral-when-experienced-by-others/)

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> [“The royal borough of Chucky Stanes, like every other town of the kind, enjoys an undue proportion of ladies in a state of single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/the-royal-borough-of-chucky-stanes-like-every-other-town-of-the-kind/)

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> [An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/an-attempt-to-gain-a-value-by-deceiving-the-mind-of-others-is-an-act/)

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> [There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galt/there-can-be-no-causeless-love-or-any-sort-of-causeless-emotion-an/)

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