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Edwin A. Abbott Quotes: Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
         

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.


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To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.



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