If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
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If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
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