Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
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George Washington Cable Quote
“And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.”
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