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What I spent, I had What I kept, I lost What I gave, I have.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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