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“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
― George Washington

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
― George Washington Carver

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
― John Adams

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
― Booker T. Washington