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If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.
George Q. Cannon
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When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.
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