"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."
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"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.“
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
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