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Perfect your Will, Mind, and Feeling, their corporal organs, and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others, and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

— 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.

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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