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Samuel Smiles - Men of Invention and Industry (1884)

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The Railway [is] now the principal means of communication in all civilized countries. It has enhanced the celerity of time, and imparted a new series of conditions to every rank of life.

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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.
Of iron

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Samuel Smiles

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Born: December 23, 1812
Died: April 16, 1904 (aged 91)
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