We must learn this rule, which is true alike of rich and poor - that no man and no class of men ever rise to any permanent improvement in their condition of body or of mind except by relying upon their own personal efforts. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

We must learn this rule, which is true alike of rich and poor - that no man and no class of men ever rise to any permanent improvement in their condition of body or of mind except by relying upon their own personal efforts.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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