No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.
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- Attributed to
- Booker T. Washington
- Source
- Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XVI: Europe
- Culture / tradition
- African American
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