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Bitterness is poison to the spirit for it breeds nothing but vipers some of which might consume your very self. Pain and sorrow all humans feel; but bitterness drops on the spirit like aloes—causing it to wither.

— Margaret Ogola The River and the Source (1994)

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Her therapy was simple for there is no greater psychologist than the one who graduates from the hard school of life.

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