Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good. (Henry David Thoreau)

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Henry David Thoreau

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