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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps"
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Henry Ellis
between July 24, 1861 and October 3, 1939. He was a famous
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