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Robert E. Lee Quotes: Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
         

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.


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