The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
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Samuel Smiles (29)
Birth: | 23rd December, 1812 |
Death: | 16th April, 1904 |
Nationality: | British, Scottish |
Profession: | Author, Reformer, Writer |
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