"At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did bear it. The question remains: how?"

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“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”

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“He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. But a great man will never so far contradict his own feelings as to see, or, it may be, increase, with cold-blooded indifference, the misfortunes of his fellow country-men.”

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