The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) English parodist, caricaturist, wit, writer [Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm]
Zuleika Dobson, ch. 4 (1911)

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