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Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
Politician
Thurgoland
South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
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