Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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