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" The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. "
George Eliot
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" When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. "
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" Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. "
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