Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do the…

Thomas Hardy
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy, p.324, 谷月社
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy, p.324, 谷月社

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