unexpected occurrence they start up, to bite; they wreak vengeance on everything that has escaped their kennel.
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Revenge in praise.—Here we have a written page full of praise, and you call it flat: but, when you will have found out that revenge lurks in this praise, you will find it almost too subtle, and greatly delight in the profusion of short, bold strokes, and similes. Not man, but his revenge is so subtle, rich and ingenious: he himself is almost unaware of it.
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Pride.—Ah! not one of you knows the feeling which the tortured has after torture, when he is being carried back to his cell and his secret with him he clings to it with stubborn tenacity. What do you know of the exultation of human pride?
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Utilitarian.—In our days the opinions on moral things so manifestly run in different directions, that to some we have to prove certain morals by virtue of their utility, whilst to others we disprove them by virtue of this very utility.
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On German virtue.—How utterly depraved in its
