“We cannot tell, we do not know, which is the greater blessing—life or death. We cannot say that death is not a good.”
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“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
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“We cannot tell, we do not know, which is the greater blessing—life or death. We cannot say that death is not a good.”
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