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Trending topics shown first"In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap f…"
"The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other."
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1830
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