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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows—it must grow; nothing can prevent it. - Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
Attribution: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. repr. In Complete Essays, ed. Charles Neider (1963). “Consistency,” paper, read in Hartford, Connecticut, 1884 (1923).

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