"I drink forty coffees a day to stay wide awake and think, think, think about how I can fight tyrants and imbeciles. It will certainly be a poison, but a very slow poison: I have already been drinking it for seventy years and, until now, I have never experienced its sad effects on my health."

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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

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