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“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.” quote by Augustus Hare — Download Open image

“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.”

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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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