The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
("War and Peace")
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But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already… it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?
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