Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

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"Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness-machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen."
-- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger