Character is higher than intellect.
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Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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