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"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Life, Circumstances, Example

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"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."

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