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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.