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George Santayana Quotes: Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
         

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.


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Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
         



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