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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and
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“Let us work,” said Martin, “without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable.”
― Candide
― Candide

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“But fashions are like human beings. They come in, nobody knows when, why, or how; and they go out, nobody knows when, why, or how. Everything is like life, in my opinion, if you look at it in that point of view.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” Thomas Parke D’Invilliers.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
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