Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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