"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever."
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Source: 1857 The Professor, ch.20.
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