Whittaker Chambers Famous Quotes



"When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser."


Whittaker Chambers Quotations






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