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1 " I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders." The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; " but speak too." " I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders. "
2 " Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.) "
― Marcus Tullius Cicero , On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination
