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I understand that he has no legal liability, since he was just a kid. I, however, feel somewhat guilty since I know that he has gone on to abuse others. I'm left wondering if I'd gone and told someone what was happening, if they could have helped him so he didn't end up throwing his life away, and so he didn't end up hurting someone else. I feel guilty for not making certain that it ended with me.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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