The Ladies' Repository, Volume 30A. Tompkins., 1861 |
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... Enough for great and small ; The oak tree and the cedar tree , And not a flower at all . " He might have made enough ... earth bring forth tain ; not simply to have but to be . Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune ...
... Enough for great and small ; The oak tree and the cedar tree , And not a flower at all . " He might have made enough ... earth bring forth tain ; not simply to have but to be . Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune ...
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