“Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.”

Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (p. 102)
More Classics Revisited (1989)

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American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982

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