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Booker T. Washington Quotes: No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
         

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.


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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
         



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