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Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

— Isaac Leib Peretz

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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

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