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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Approximate author period: c. 1885 AD · industrial
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- Booker T. Washington
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- Approximate author period: c. 1885 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Booker T. Washington: life dates 1856 to 1915. Wikidata Q319871, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319871 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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