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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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