"His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing."

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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley