People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large pa…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks

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