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“When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.” quote by Henry Ward Beecher — Download Open image

“When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.”

Henry Ward Beecher

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