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Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Heal
Healing
Oneself
Failing
Easier
Another
Injure
Much
Fails
Occur

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