There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
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- You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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