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Love is the river of life in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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