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To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.
Lew Wallace
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Lew Wallace
Age: 77 †
Born: 1827
Born: April 10
Died: 1905
Died: February 15
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Lewis Lew Wallace
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Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.
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There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names such is history.
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