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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.


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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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VAL UCHENDU After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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C. S. LEWIS Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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PLEASEFINDTHIS Can’t hear… call back… good luck…”
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