If there is any one lesson that we all of us need to have impressed upon us more thoroughly and more constantly than any other, it is that each minute of our lives is of supreme value, and that we are committing a sin when we allow a single minute to go to waste.
Washington warns against wasting time, highlighting its supreme value in our lives.
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The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.
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These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.
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