What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best. (John Lancaster Spalding)

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

John Lancaster Spalding

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