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Jean Anouilh Quotes: We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
         

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.


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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
         



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