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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thi

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. – C.C. Colton

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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. – C.C. Colton

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