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Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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Benjamin Franklin is saying that the ideas of getting better, reaching goals, and being successful only matter if you keep moving forward and developing over time. If you stop growing or making progress, those concepts lose their significance and value.

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