Intention

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity
A purpose you impart is no longer your own
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us
'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.

A Death in the Desert
'Tis not what a man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

Saul
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