The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. (Henry van Dyke)

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

Henry van Dyke

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