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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Wir sind alle Bildhauer und Maler, und unser Material ist unser eigenes Fleisch und Blut und unsere Knochen. Jede Adeligkeit beginnt sofort, die Gesichtszüge eines Mannes zu verfeinern, jede Gemeinheit oder Sinnlichkeit, um sie zu beschönigen.

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