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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

Haniel Long

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Haniel Long
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 9
Died: 1956
Died: October 17
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Haniel Clark Long
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