"National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness; as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice...If this view be correct, then it follows that the highest patriotism and philanthropy consist, not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions, as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves by their own free and independent individual action."
-Samuel Smiles, as excerpted from Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance. (1859)
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