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“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Observe, that the nose has been formed to bear spectacles—thus we have spectacles.” Voltaire, Candide
“What the count said was true—the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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