The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King. - Johann Becher

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Johann Becher: "The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King."

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Almost	Among	Change	Chemists
Class	Evils	Flame	Impelled
Impulse	Insane	King	Live
Mortals	Persian	Places	Pleasure
Poisons	Poverty	Seek	Seem
Smoke	Soot	Strange	Sweetly
These	Vapor

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