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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Jacksonville
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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