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March 1950

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TWENTY FOUR hours--living by the day. It is the long stretches that tire us. Not even a beast of burden can carry a load for a long stretch. No one can fight life's battle continually. But there are really no long stretches. Life does not come to us all at one time; it comes to us only a day at a time--24 hours. Even tomorrow is never ours until it is today, and we have nothing whatever to do with it but to pass down to it a fair and good inheritance in today's work well done, and today's life soberly and well lived.

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