Buckingham, the war governor of Connecticut, one day met a young
man named Simmons as both were walking along the street, and
putting both hands on the young man’s shoulders, the governor
said solemnly: “Simmons, we are none of us living as well as
we ought to,” and passed on. Simmons, as an old man, declared
that that act had a most powerful and permanent influence on his
life. (Text.)
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