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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography , 1901
Author Booker T. Washington
Source Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Type book
Year 1901
Locator ch. II, Boyhood Days, p. 39
Publisher Doubleday, Page & Co.
Rights Public domain Public domain in the US CC0, no rights reserved Protected work, short quotation
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Booker T. Washington 1856–1915 · American educator, author and orator born into slavery; first principal of the Tuskegee Institute. Wikipedia
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