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No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

— Robert Baden-Powell

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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Baden-Powell's Last Message (1941)

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)

The scouts' motto is founded on my initials, it is: be prepared, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.

Scouting for Boys (1908)

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