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Character Building

Character Building
Booker T. Washington
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“There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.”

Booker T. Washington book Character Building

"The Virtue of Simplicity," from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute (1902), p. 41 http://books.google.com/books?vid=0xSIrRTbnYkF0PDougzpPqX&id=DYYMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=%22Character+Building:+Being+Addresses+Delivered%22#PPA41,M1

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