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"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."
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"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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