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'Some of them Plague had imbued with a skepticism so thorough that it was now a second nature.'

'That, too, is why this epidemic hss taught me nothing new, except that I must fight it at your side...that each of us has the Plague within him; no one, no one on earth is free from it. And I know, too, that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in a careless moment we breathe in somebody's face and fasten the infection on him.'

'The result was that poor families were in great straits, while the rich went short of practically nothing. Thus, whereas the Plague by its impartial ministrations should have promoted equality among our townsfolk, it now had the opposite effect and, thanks to the habitual conflict of cupidities, exacerbated the sense of injustice rankling in men's hearts.'

'Standing at the foot of the statue of the Republic that evening, he felt it; all he was conscious of was a bleak indifference steadily gaining on him as he gazed at the door of the hotel ... had just entered.'

'In a very few days the number of cases had risen by leaps and bounds, and it became evident to all observers of this strange malady that a real epidemic had set in.'

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