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.

James A. Garfield
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  1. 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.

  2. It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

  3. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

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