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Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.
Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.
Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Hughes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Thomas Hughes, based on documented lifetime 1822 to 1896. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332580 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332580 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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