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    These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 20:12.

    Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it’s much too painful.
    Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)