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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Benjamin Franklin
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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