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" Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "
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