Reply #79: It Is The Latter Case, My Friend, That Most Requires My Attentions

[The Magistrate]

They need a pack leader, and also someone to unite against....

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

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"Vegetables are all very well, but lack purpose when unaccompanied by a chunk of meat."

Asked whether evil should be repaid with good, the Master answered: "With what, then, do I repay good? Repay good with good; repay evil with correction."

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