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The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.SocratesWrite now →Details & source
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I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It…Thomas HoodWrite now →Details & source