It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. ✨ M…

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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. ✨ Mark Twain (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated), p.3957, Delphi Classics
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