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begin to-morrow morning, every boy and girl, to be reliable and to keep at it until reliability becomes a part of you.
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“begin to-morrow morning, every boy and girl, to be reliable and to keep at it until reliability becomes a part of you.”

Booker T. Washington

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Character Building
Date
1902
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Reliability is treated as a habit built by repeated dependable action, not a trait someone either permanently has or lacks.

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Character Building, “Keeping Your Word,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington directs the advice to Tuskegee students in the context of promptness and keeping commitments.

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