"There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish."

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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAcademics from the United KingdomViceroys of IndiaBritish Ambassadors to France
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Part ii, canto v, section viii.

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Part ii, canto v, section viii.