• The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.

  Source: Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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