| All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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| There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. |
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- Andrew Carnegie |
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