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Sea Spray and Smoke Drift


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“Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”

Adam Lindsay Gordon book Sea Spray and Smoke Drift

Many quoters, including Bartlett&#x27;s Familiar Quotations (1919), have &quot;in our own&quot; instead of &quot;in your own&quot;. <br class="br">Source: &quot;Finis Exoptatus (A metaphysical Song)&quot; (24 November 1866), Fytte 8 of Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes, as published in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift http://books.google.com/books?id=xZUuAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA47 (1867).

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