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“If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.”
[Powderly, Terence, 'The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly, 1940, Columbia University Press, 9781163178164, https://archive.org/stream/pathitrodautobio00powdrich, 34]
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