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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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