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Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while—but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!

— Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948)

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Many people get a sense of savage satisfaction out of denouncing those who are better educated than they are or more successful.

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