"Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them."

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I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

— Henry David Thoreau