Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Henry Ward Beecher

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