It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. (Mariella Frostrup)

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Mariella Frostrup

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