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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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Brotherhood
Class
Country
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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Character
Responsibility
Training
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
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Gain
Listening
Observation
Occupation
Talk
Will
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
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Leader
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
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Success
Example
Training
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
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Leaders
Responsibility
Will
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
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Happiness
Worth
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
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Light
Spirit
To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
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Friend
Boys
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
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Trust
Training
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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Duty
Neglect
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Robert Baden-Powell
Want
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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Habits
Punishment
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
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Accident
Act
Meaning
Thinking
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-Powell
Boys
Play