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frailty quotes

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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“As the births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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love time beauty weakness vice innovation fragility

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John Steinbeck (1)
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East of Eden (1)
The Essays of Francis Bacon (1)
The Glass Menagerie (1)