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Alfred the Great Quotes: It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
         

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.


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