Elegance is inferior to virtue.
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What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
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From my birth I have aspired like the eagle but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed.... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.
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