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“Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,—shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One needs only to get old to become milder; I don’t see anyone make a mistake I hadn’t also made.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)