Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Walt Whitman Quote
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
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