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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Honore de Balzac

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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