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Admirers.—He who goes so far in his admiration as to crucify the non-admirer, is one of the hangmen of his party; beware of shaking hands with him, though he be of your party.
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Effect of happiness.—The first effect of happiness is the sense of power: which longs to manifest itself either to us or to others, to ideas or imaginary beings. The most ordinary ways of manifestation are: Gifts, derision, destruction—all these three with a common, deep-seated impulse.
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Moral stinging-flies.—Those moralists who lack the love of knowledge and who only know the pleasure of giving pain to others, have the temper and tediousness of townsfolk. It is their pastime, which is as cruel as it is mean, closely to watch their neighbour and quite imperceptibly to put a pin in such a way that he cannot help pricking himself with it. This is their last residuum of the schoolboy's naughtiness, who cannot be merry without hunting and torturing both the living and dead.
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Reasons and their groundlessness.—You feel a dislike for him, and adduce ample reasons for this dislike, but
