If you do this, your lives are going to be a constant going forward; for, I repeat, your lives are going to be one thing or the other, continually going backward or continually going forward.
Washington highlights the importance of making a choice between progress and stagnation in life.
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Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.
From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.
These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.
I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.