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Were it not so terrible it would be ludicrous with what pride and self-satisfaction we, like children, pull the watch to pieces, take out the spring, make a toy of it, and are then surprised that the watch does not go.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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