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Stronger Lessons

STRONGER LESSONS.

HAVE you learned lessons only of those who admired  
 you, and were tender with you, and stood aside  
 for you? Have you not learned the great lessons of those who  
 rejected you, and braced themselves against  
 you? or who treated you with contempt, or  
 disputed the passage with you?
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