"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.“


-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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