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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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Virtuous
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Honor
Dream
Doe
Men
Contents
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