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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

George Eliot
Opportunity, Politics, Vices
George Eliot (2010). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.549, The Floating Press
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.