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"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward."
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
USA - Politician
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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