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“There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.
— Booker T. Washington
Educator and author
"The Virtue of Simplicity," from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute (1902), p. 41
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