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D I U R N A
AN EXAMPLE READING
“Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”
The Enchiridion · VIII
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WORDS WITH A SOURCE.Read the original Translation by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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