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" Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. "

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" You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. "

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" When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? "

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