Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. - Nicholas Murray Butler

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In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.

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