You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?<br/>Come up with a smiling face,<br/>It's nothing against you to fall down flat<br/>But to lie there -- that's a disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
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It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; 'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich, As the gifts of the Wise Ones were, And we are not told whose gift was gold
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