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"I wonder, citizen, if you wouldn't like to acquire a philosophical system? With a double embrace of the world: a precept for both the micro- and the macrocosm. Formulated according to strict and exact methods. An answer to all great questions. Well, and...the cost is not out of the question"? (...) You would be the first to contemplate it. I am just a constructor, you see, an assembler of such systems. That's all" (...) .."If a philosophy of life is more than you can afford then perhaps you'll be satisfied with two or three aphorismof your choice. What is your pleasure: depth or brilliance, wit or brevity, philosophical weight or punning wordplay?. We should also agree incidentally as to their emotional coloring: Do you prefer sad sentiments, you know, resignation, or" S.K.