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Ethel Percy Andrus Quotes: We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
         

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.


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