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Ayn Rand
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It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.341, Penguin
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It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.341, Penguin

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