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"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."
History
"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."
Family
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
Business
"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."
Family
"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."
Family
"In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time."
Time
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
Politics
"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."
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"It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors."
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