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Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.
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All for a Pinch of Snuff, c. 1910. Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 64.

 

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