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“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol

“-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.”
― Man in the Holocene
― Man in the Holocene

“The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times

“A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.”
― The Famished Road
― The Famished Road

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