"The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do."
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Multatuli, The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables
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Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel Max Havelaar 1860, which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
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