A Quote by Booker T. Washington
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
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