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                                             August 26, 2013

      "For in truth, to adopt a mania is like
      applying a poultice to the soul: it can
      cure any *taedium vitae*, any spleen.
      Let all those no longer able to drain
      what has always been called 'the cup of
      joy' take to collecting something (even
      advertisement bills), and in this they
      will find the solid gold of happiness
      minted into small coinage.

                          Balzac, "Cousin Pons",
                          Tran. Herbert J Hunt.
                          Penguin Books, p. 27:


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