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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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