Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. - Francis Marion

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Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

Francis Marion

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

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What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

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Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?

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Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin.

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A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

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