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Paul Laurence Dunbar

There is a heaven, for ever, day by day,
The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so.
There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray
If there were not, where would my neighbours go?




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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
• George Bernard Shaw


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