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“It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.” quote by Ovid — Download Open image

“It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.”

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