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"It would have been better on every account if you hadn't come up at all, wouldn't it?" she asked, bent on self-cruelty; but he accepted the cruelty as meant for him.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

The greatest condemnation of the self-cruelty of the fakeers is—its uselessness.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport