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Henry Miller Quotes: When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
         

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.


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