We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; bu…

Mark Twain
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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that. ✨ Following the Equator ch. 14, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar (1897)
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