“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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