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Contents of a man's letter are more valuable
than the contents of his purse.
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Step by step, one distasteful task after another,
I made my way.
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Influence grows like a weed.
I tended mine patiently until its tendrils reached to the far side of the world
where I managed to wrap them around something very special.
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I have no doubt the revenge you want will be yours in time
if you have the stomach for it.
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Prodigies appear in the oddest of places.