"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
— Kahlil Gibran

January 1, 1970

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin, as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert