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Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Age: 42 †
Born: 1858
Born: August 3
Died: 1901
Died: May 18
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