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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
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Presumptuous
Almost
Everything
Nothing
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