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Old 08-10-2017, 01:04 PM   #3680
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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73 View Post
"I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try to swindle their livelihood into my own possession. I say to them: Please go freely on your way, and I will do my best to follow mine. Well then, Maria, although this is not a fashionable way of going on, nor even a successful one, it is a thing which I believe in—that people must not tyrannize, nor try to be great because they are little."

T.H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose
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Stolen, and reposted elsewhere as if it were my own find!
I thought it was marvelous too.
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