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• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• Do not speak of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything
  every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger....
• The powerful punish by lack of interest.
• Money is it's own reward.
• Obscurity is its own reward.
• Pomposity is its own reward.
• Power shows intimacy as a reward.
• Solipsism is its own reward.
• Virtual is its own reward.