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"A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately."
"This souls'prison we call England."
"He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth."
"People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."
"When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside."
"I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance."
"There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage."
"If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing."