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I wonder how many of you, five years from now, will have fifteen hundred dollars in the bank or in some other safe kind of property.
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Booker T. Washington
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gutenberg.orgBooker T. Washington: “I wonder how many of you, five years from now, will have fifteen hundred dollars in the bank or in some other safe kind…”
Editor's note · Context
Washington challenges his audience to consider their own financial futures and the importance of saving.
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