| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63326 |
| QUOTATION: | No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Booker T. Washington (18561915), U.S. educator. address, Sept. 18, 1895, Atlanta Exposition. Up From Slavery (1901). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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