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Ray Stannard Baker (pen name David Grayson)

Through many feverish years I did not work: I merely produced.

For many years, and I can say it truthfully, I never rested. I neither thought nor reflected. I had no pleasure, even though I pursued it fiercely during the brief respite of vacations. Through many feverish years I did not work: I merely produced.

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Ray Stannard Baker (pen name David Grayson)

I will be as broad as the earth. I will not be limited.

I will be as broad as the earth. I will not be limited.

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Ray Stannard Baker (pen name David Grayson)

…that vague Success which we Americans love to glorify.

From the moment, as a boy of seventeen, I first began to pay my own way, my days were ordered by an inscrutable power which drove me hourly to my task. I was rarely allowed to look up or down, but always forward, toward that vague Success which we Americans love to glorify.

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Ray Stannard Baker (pen name David Grayson)

Let people be different.

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.