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I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to l

I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. – A.A. Milne

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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