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" Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking. "

Edwin Markham

Alone

Stand

Spiritual

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You

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