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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."

"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."

"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."

"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race."
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