"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~












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