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It isn't how good people may say you are, you know yourself whether you have made good; it's what you think when you lie in bed at night, considering what you have achieved that day, which really counts.
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Praise from other people is not the final measure of how well you have lived or acted. What matters is your own honest judgment when the day is over: whether your actions and achievements were genuinely good. The quote places greater weight on private self-assessment than on reputation or flattering opinions.
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- Perfessor Bill’s Nora Bayes biography, quoting the Los Angeles Herald
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