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Quote by Nathaniel Howe
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute livi

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran

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