I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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