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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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