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"Life, not the parson, teaches conduct." -
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"O Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q.!Strange is the gift that I owe to you;Such a gift as never a kingSave to daughter or son might bring,-All my tenure of heart and hand,All my title to house and land;Mother and sister and child and wifeAnd joy and sorrow and death and life!"
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
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