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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 198 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).

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