The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.
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