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Comment author: Perplexed 05 September 2010 03:49:21PM 3 points [-]

Closely related:

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.

--G. Khan

Comment author: [deleted] 05 September 2010 04:08:50PM *  1 point [-]

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Comment author: Perplexed 05 September 2010 04:24:34PM *  1 point [-]

Well, I don't think it is that closely related. Bagehot seems like a more constructive type, as his time and place predicts.

Constructive?

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

--W. Bagehot

Well, maybe. He advocates doing the supposed impossible, while merely daydreaming about the forbidden.

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