“Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”
Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings
Source: The Way of Kings
“In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.”
— Diane Setterfield, book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
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