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A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

— Bolesław Prus

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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

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Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

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