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“Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ea0f6839db91af60907c4a6b08dd5a19bb740eaaee3b3f52559a0f665de3758c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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