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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
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