“Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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