"Ambition, enterprise, effort and success are largely states of mind; happiness is the United States."
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Businesspeople from the United StatesJournalists from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesYale University alumniPeople from Louisville
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"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy", The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 177, no. 21 (November 19, 1904), p. 16
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George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer (October 6, 1867 – October 22, 1937) was an American journalist, editor, author and publisher who worked as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to 1936.
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