"It is as hard and severe a thing……" — Francis Bacon

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• I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. — Octavia Butler
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• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but… — William Ellery Channing

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