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“God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.”

— Jeffrey

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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