There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wron… - Russell Conwell

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There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.

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About Russell Conwell

Russell H. Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister who was the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He delivered the lecture Acres of Diamonds thousands of times in the 1880s and 1890s. This lecture was subsequently published as a book.

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Alternative Names: Russell H. Conwell Russell Herman Conwell

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A man is not really a true man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, true and economical and careful, by owning the home.

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