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Life is ten percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin		Sunday Dec 22, 2024
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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia. Johann Joachim Becher

Quote Author: Johann Joachim Becher

	Johann Joachim Becher
	From Mendeleyev's Dream; Physica Subterranea (1667)

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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia.