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When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"

— Diogenes of Sinope

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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

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