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“When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
“She lookd amiable!Why could I not live and end my days thus? Just disposer of our joys and sorrows, cried I, why could not a man sit down in the lap of content hereand dance, and sing, and say his prayers, and go to heaven with this nut brown maid?”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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