The shepherd always…
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. – Stendhal (1783 – 1842) (Image by Quang Nguyen vinh from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »


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