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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and str
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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish"

- David Mallet

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