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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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