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Love is a virtue it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
Artist
Astrologer
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
Chess Player
Mountaineer
Novelist
Organizational Founder
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Leamington
Warwickshire
Grows
Superiors
Loathes
Less
Vices
Purer
Idea
Selfish
Applying
Ideas
Neighbor
Loathe
Love
Slave
Theft
Oneself
Involving
Stronger
Superior
Virtue
Vice

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