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James A. Garfield Quotes: Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
         

Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.


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Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
         



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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.



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I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.



If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.



I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.



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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.



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The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.



If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.





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