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We all originally came from the woods; it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment money gets into our pockets, it somehow or other breaks out in ornaments on our persons, without always giving refinement to our manners.

— Edwin Percy Whipple Success and Its Conditions (1871)

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A Thought embodied and embrained in fit words, walks the earth a living being.

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Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence more than talents and accomplishments.

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