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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Mikhail Lermontov

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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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