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"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"Work while you have strength."
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"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
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