Samuel Smiles: National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness…
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
In today’s wordsA nation's progress is the sum of its people's hard work, energy, and integrity, just as its decline is the sum of their laziness, selfishness, and vice.
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