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Don't stay the course

A good deed done privately may be laudable, but the same deed performed the next day with a boastful intent is unworthy.

AN ANCIENT Canaanite idol of Baal with raised arm from the 14th–12th centuries BCE, found at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit in modern-day Syria)
AN ANCIENT Canaanite idol of Baal with raised arm from the 14th–12th centuries BCE, found at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit in modern-day Syria)
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
ByLEVI COOPER
APRIL 12, 2018 21:13
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