"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."

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“Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.”

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"Sanity itself is a kind of convention."

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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Literature1947–2022

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