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As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

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Max Muller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 6
Died: 1900
Died: October 28
Educator
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Librarian
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Mythographer
Translator
University Teacher
Dessau-Rosslau
Friedrich Max Müller
F. M. M.
F. Max Müller
Long
Safe
Feeders
Life
Unless
Thirst
Return
Root
Tree
Firm
Grows
Destroyed
Though
Thus
Pain
Roots
Even
Cutting

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