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“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
— Henry Ford
Founder, Ford Motor Company
Remarks from the witness stand, to a court in Mount Clemens, Michigan (July 1919), as quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1948) by Edmund Fuller, p. 162
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