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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Quotes: Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
         

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.


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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
         



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