"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sic...

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
~ Gautama Buddha ~












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