"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman Theologian

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

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