"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.“


-John Morley

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

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