"With carefully nourished resentment, a man can go through his life blaming someone or something else for his failures. This enables him to be a failure and to feel morally superior to the world at the same time."
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Theodore Dalrymple, "Private Clubs and the Sour Pleasures of Resentment", The Epoch Times (August 19, 2021)
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