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Now you are young, pretty, fresh, you fetch a high price. But after another year of this life you will be very different—you will go off."
"In a year?"
"Anyway, in a year you will be worth less," I continued malignantly. "You will go from here to something lower, another house; a year later—to a third, lower and lower, and in seven years you will come to a basement in the Haymarket. That will be if you were lucky

“he all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed, that that was his droit de seigneur, and that if the peasants dared to protest he would have them all flogged and double the tax on them, the bearded rascals”

I would Hate That guy too.

“You doubtlessly mean to say something, but hide your last word through fear, because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only have a cowardly impudence. You boast of consciousness, but you are not sure of your ground, for though your mind works, yet your heart is darkened and corrupt, and you cannot have a full, genuine consciousness without a pure heart.”

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid.”

“Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard;
how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me.”

“To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty?”