| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64971 |
| QUOTATION: | The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him,—not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president. Mere Literature and Other Essays, p. 45, Houghton Mifflin (1896). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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