Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to com…

Mark Helprin
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Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right. ✨ Mark Helprin (2007). Memoir from Antproof Case, p.522, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right. ✨ Mark Helprin (2007). Memoir from Antproof Case, p.522, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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