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All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force—seemed at once to desert him; insomuch that he positively withered up, shrivelled away, and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun. This unhappy man had made the very principle of his life to consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge; and when, by its completest triumph and consummation, that evil principle was left with no further material to support it, when, in short, there was no more devil's work on earth for him to do, it only remained for the unhumanised mortal to betake himself whither his Master would find him tasks enough, and pay him his wages duly 去书内
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  • Eunice Eunice

    When one person takes revenge as the faith of his life, whether he accomplishes his revenge or not, he has lost the right to pleasure.

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