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“Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 37e695913bfd8862d53bc0b7198f160793494154b61bd06becae66b872d8c5dd
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