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“The mornings broke with the tinkling of his alarm at 4am, the lighting of the oil burner to warm his room, and the kerosene map to see by.”
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“It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.”
― Journal of Discourses, Volume 12
― Journal of Discourses, Volume 12
“To find peace and quiet in the crowded farmhouse, he got up morning after morning at four or five o’clock and tiptoed downstairs to read and do his homework by the light of the big what shaded kerosend lamp on the kitchen table.”
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“The way out, the lifting hold on his own bootstraps was an education. He had to know more about everything. He had to know how to study, think and act like an educated man.”
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“Friend, people are after me all the time to sign notes for them, but I never sign a note for anybody. If I wanted to help them, and if I could, I’d sooner give them the money and forget it. Start signing notes and most times, you lose your money, and you lose your friend too.”
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