When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed.
("Frankenstein")
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A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
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