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" Children are all foreigners. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? "
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" The faith that stands on authority is not faith. "
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" Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. "
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" When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. "
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