Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. (John Lancaster Spalding)

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

John Lancaster Spalding

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