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"Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round."
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"You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day."
— Ambrose Bierce
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