Affinity Quote by Samuel Smiles

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“Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.”

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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