People talk sometimes of a ...

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that\'s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that\'s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
 Fyodor Dostoevsky

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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
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