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May Quote by Diogenes

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“I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.”

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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

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