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-George MacDonald
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"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.“
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"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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