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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Corrie Ten Boom
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 15
Died: 1983
Died: April 15
Author
Autobiographer
Resistance Fighter
Writer
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
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Child
Learn
Right
Children
Proportions
Great
Proportion
Things
Perception

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