Quotemeal: Oct. 6th, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

"We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."
— Edward Everett Hale

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Illustration of Edward Everett Hale — "We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

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