One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
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Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
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