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If man could still retain his warmth of soul when experience has taught him, if he could inherit the legacies of time without bending beneath the weight, he would never attack those exalted virtues whose first lesson is ever self-sacrifice. -- MADAME DE STAËL: _Germany_.
"Well, what is it? You, Poël! what brings you here?"