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Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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