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Mark Hopkins Quotes: But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.
         

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.


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