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We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

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My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush. Soren Kierkegaard
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. Algernon H. Blackwood
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