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Severance

by Ling Ma (Goodreads Author)

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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― Mark Twain

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― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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― Plato

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