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Other Quotes by Booker T. Washington
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
- No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks…
- In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read…
- Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so…
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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