A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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