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By Booker T. Washington
I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim which says, “Do not get others to do that which you can do yourself.” My motto, on the other hand, is, “Do not do that which others can do as well.”
- Source
- Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, 1901 · The Success in Public Speaking, p. 258
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1901 first edition, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.)
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From Booker T. Washington's autobiography Up from Slavery (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901). This is the text of the first edition.