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"Opportunity creates a sinner: at least it calls him into action, and like the warming sun invites the sleeping serpent from its hole. "
The dramas of love, of jealousy, of hatred, which play so awful a part in human existence, only form eddies, perhaps it would be more true to say whirlpools, on the vast placid current of life.