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If Richard Roe by chance is defective, unable by heredity to rise to the level of helpfulness and happiness, it is not a wholesome act to help him to the responsibilities of parenthood. It is a wise charity to make him as comfortable as may be with the assurance that he shall be the last of his line.

— David Starr Jordan

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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

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