“I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them”

— Robin S. Sharma

Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

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Canadian self help writer 1965

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::* This translation occurs in the Harvard Classics edition of Wilhem Meister's Apprenticeship, Book VIII, Chapter IV. Translation by Thomas Carlyle Bartelby Online Edition of 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'. http://www.bartleby.com/314/804.html
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