"Duty reaches down the ages in its effects,……" — William Mountford
"Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world."
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William Mountford
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8 Quotes by William Mountford
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