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The venom that chills and curdles the warm current of life in man is secreted only in creeping and cold-blooded creatures; and the inveterate malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

— George Stillman Hillard A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

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3,446, Malignity

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