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/ Gratitude and treachery are merely the  \
| two extremities of the same procession. |
| You have seen all of it that is worth   |
| staying for when the band and the gaudy |
| officials have gone by.                 |
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| -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's     |
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