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This world is such an abode that if those present here
Have their wits entire, they will never weep for the absent ones.

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The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

To beget is to increase the sum of evil.

The lizard's ancestors are the cause of its being hunted.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains.

Some worse people than I have entered Paradise! But it is not everybody’s fortune to be granted forgiveness, it is like wealth in the Fleeting World.

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