It cannot be too…
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that makes men. – William Matthews (Image by Patrick Neufelder from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »


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