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

— Bolesław Prus

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

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

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

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

And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.

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