“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.”

—  Francis Bacon

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Revenge

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