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Rational beings despise nothing so much as that magnanimity that they themselves feel incapable of.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Aphorisms (1880)

Der Verstandesmensch verhöhnt nichts so bitter als den Edelmut, dessen er sich nicht fähig fühlt.

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