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When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.
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