To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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