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“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

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