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Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.
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