“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”

— John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 246

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“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”

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