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He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
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