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Indiscriminate charity has been a fruitful cause of the survival of the unfit. To kill the strong and feed the weak is to provide for a progeny of weakness.

— David Starr Jordan

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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Poverty, dirt, and crime are the products of those, in general, who are not good material.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

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