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" ...   No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober   ... "

Samuel Smiles

" ...   It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value   ... "

David Hume

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