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Quote by Nan Fairbrother
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. - Nan Fairbrother

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

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Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest! – Kyle Short

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911

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