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"Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin."

— Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers (1844)

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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances."

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