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“To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fed453cc4aaf85e7ca24683b2d0f3809630b861d874d352f9f853edfa8f3c945
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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