"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
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"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.“
-Andre Gide
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