Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). Brothers Karamazov, p.427, Bantam Classics
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