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Norman Douglas Quotes: The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
         

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.


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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
         



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