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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Age: 60 †
Born: 1821
Born: January 1
Died: 1881
Died: January 1
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