"Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unba...
You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
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You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.
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