Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike
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- What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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