Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. (Samuel Smiles)

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Samuel Smiles

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