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The chapter on Nabokov and Cruelty is one of the best things I have ever read.
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Cruelty is an act of will, a willingness to put one's own convenience, priorities or pleasure ahead of others.
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Cruelty is an act of will, a willingness to put one's own convenience, priorities or pleasure ahead of others.
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Cruelty is not regional. muddy, thanks for the heads up on the Sondheim interview.
Colonel Donald Trump? Major Stephen Sondheim? General John Gotti Jr? 2010
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Cruelty is an indifference to suffering, compassion is a sympathy to suffering, therefore David's quote of "Teach your kids that the concept of cruelty is alien to hunting" is an attempt to instill compassion into hunters, not remove it.
David E. 2005
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Cruelty is an indifference to suffering, compassion is a sympathy to suffering, therefore David's quote of "Teach your kids that the concept of cruelty is alien to hunting" is an attempt to instill compassion into hunters, not remove it.
David E. 2005
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Besides, everyone fucking knows that Intolerable Cruelty is their shittiest film.
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"Ashes; ashes!" mocked one called Cruelty, who had more than once taken my attention with his peculiar contortions -- "talking of ashes, what of Love-the-log Faithful, Master Tongue-stump?
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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The advertisement, titled Cruelty Doesn't Fly, features the scantily-clad former
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And nothing could be called Cruelty tliat wasexercifeJ up -. on fuch, who would have done the fame, or worfja-. toiov tbers if it had been in their Power.
A letter to the author of The memorial of the state of England 1705
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