As I grow older, I…
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »






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