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Self-tormentor   Listen
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Self-tormentor  n.  One who torments himself.





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"Self-tormentor" Quotes from Famous Books



... were engraved in ineffaceable characters on my heart. Ah, what a miserable self-tormentor I have been! The door of my heart stand always ajar, as Mary said, and trouble comes gliding in that all times, without so much as a knock to herald his coming. I must shut ...
— After a Shadow, and Other Stories • T. S. Arthur
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... relation into the English phrase "man to man," which leads the Western reader to suppose that Confucius taught that universal love for man, as man, which was instilled and exemplified by Jesus Christ. In translating Confucius they often make the same mistake that some have done who read in Terence's "Self-Tormentor" the line, "I am a man, and nothing human is foreign to me,"[29] and imagine that this is the sentiment of an enlightened Christian, although the context shows that it is only the boast of a busybody and parasite. What ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis
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