“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
No. 106 (23 March 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
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Bret Easton Ellis
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American Psycho
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