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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

William Faulkner

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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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