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Adlai Stevenson: “The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.”

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The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
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Adlai Stevenson

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Stevenson poetically describes the human heart's struggle against negative emotions and guilt.

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