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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. - Be

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. – Bern Williams

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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