• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  Charles Simmons
  American editor and novelist 1798-1856
  

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1. self-denial
2. opposition
3. practice
4. maintain
5. glorious
6. universe

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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. by : Charles Simmons

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