To find love some day—there was a fit ambition for every hum

To find love some day—there was a fit ambition for every human heart! But how often it was pushed aside by greed, by cynicism, by selfishness, by fear—by any number of cold and worldly things! – Burton E. Stevenson, The Kingmakers, “Chapter XIX: Selden Takes an Inventory,” 1

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