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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. ✨ Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
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