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Degrees Quote by John Donne

“The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.” quote by John Donne — Download Open image

“The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.”

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