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“He considered himself in a class above the ordinary run of beggars, who, he said, were an abject lot, without even the decency to be ungrateful. He”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Epictetus nicely likened this process to gaming: “The counters are indifferent and the dice are indifferent: how do I know which way they will fall? But to use the throw carefully and skillfully, that is my job.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: The Annotated Edition

“We do not want the old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.”
― Gore Vidal, Burr

“People who think deeply feel themselves to be comedians in their relationship with others because they first have to simulate a surface in order to be understood.”
― Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche