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Brief author info: James Africanus Horton (1835-1883) British physician. Development economist and physician; first practiced in Britain; served twenty years in West Africa as one of few black officers in British Army; stimulated development of mineral resources in Ghana; opened development bank in Sierra Leone.

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It is impossible for a nation to civilize itself; civilization must come from abroad.

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In the government of a semi-barbarous race ... a little despotism is absolutely necessary.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

- Publilius Syrus

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Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

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Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- G. K. Chesterton

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