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Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build on opinion or custom, or what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build on opinion or custom, or what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
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- Thomas Starr King
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 105; printed byline: Thomas Starr King; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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