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Thought for the day
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower; Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Published on this day
- 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
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