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Tuesday, January 31, 2023
The Unchanging Human Heart
Emil Ludwig, Gifts of Life: A Retrospect, (Little, Brown, and Company, 1931) edt. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Preface, v.:
The lesson of all memoirs is that the human heart is unchanging, throughout all ages, classes, and varieties of opinion.
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