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The Sea-Wolf

CHAPTER VIII
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Which is a very poor way of saying that it is good for oneself to be strong, and evil for oneself to be weak--or better yet, it is pleasurable to be strong, because of the profits; painful to be weak, because of the penalties.

Just now the possession of this money is a pleasurable thing.

It is good for one to possess it.

Being able to possess it, I wrong myself and the life that is in me if I give it to you and forego the pleasure of possessing it." "But you wrong me by withholding it," I objected.
"Not at all.

One man cannot wrong another man.


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