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" Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. "

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" The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. "

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