"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.“


-Amos Bronson Alcott

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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