I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
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- James A. Garfield
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- James A. Garfield, A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being A Cyclopedia Of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 327
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