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" Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. "
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Abuse
Who
Never
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" That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. "
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Lived
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Day
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Without
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