To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.Samuel Butler
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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