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My grandmother always says to pay attention to stories, for there are often truths hidden within.
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
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“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”
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“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”
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