The people, the system, the workings of this horrible machine that has ground you down, and the fundamentally evil beings who in their different ways have tormented and harmed you, have in fact done you the greatest service they possibly could. They have brought a new person into being inside you, better than the first; and it is to them that you owe it that now you possess a sense of honour, kindness and charity, as well as the will-power needed to conquer all these difficulties and to become a finer man. In a person like you these notions of revenge cannot prosper; nor can the idea of
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