It is not then how much a man may know that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he knows it (p.299). - Samuel Smiles

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It is not then how much a man may know that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he knows it (p.299).

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Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a Scottish author and reformer.

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may be of comparatively little consequence how a man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be freed by any mere changes of masters

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