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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Nature does not make leaps.

Gottfried Leibniz

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  Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

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