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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

"Our power is not so much in us as through us."

"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."

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