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"Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?"
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"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
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