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All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

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Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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