“A man may be down, but he is never out.”

— Bruce Fairchild Barton

A slogan Barton wrote for the Salvation Army

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American author, politician and advertising executive 1886–1967

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“No longer can I complain that the unrighteous man reaches the highest pinnacle of success. He is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin.”
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