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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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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
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