If we are only as the potters clay Made to be fashioned as the artist wills, And broken into shards if we offend The eye of Him who made us, it is well. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

If we are only as the potters clay Made to be fashioned as the artist wills, And broken into shards if we offend The eye of Him who made us, it is well.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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