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But still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

Anna SewellBlack Beauty

Note

This line turns attention away from status and toward the quiet dignity of doing one’s part well. It leans toward an internal standard. Because it is brief, its meaning can widen toward work, duty, and the steady keeping of one’s character in changing circumstances.