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“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
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