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elation
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earlier or later and that I ought not
I know that my life has been on the whole an easy life—that during all the years I spent at Selby Court I never had any trouble; I know that crosses do come to us all, earlier or later, and that I ought not to be surprised that “no new thing has happened to me,” the world being full of such experiences. — from Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
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