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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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