Grand Duke Gediminas

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“An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”M”En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.” We ask for long life, but ‘t is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.”
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