Quote #17
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
More from Booker T. Washington
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- Cast down your bucket where you are.
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- Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
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- Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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