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"Suspicion cannot be overcome by being fed upon untruth itself, and suspicion is the condition of most unbalanced minds. I am convinced that the unhappiness of many such would be greatly decreased if, as nearly as possible, they received at the hands of sane persons the treatment accord to sane persons."

"... strictly speaking, the rash act which followed cannot correctly be called an attempt at suicide- for, how can a man who is not himself kill himself?"