And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly {the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others}, and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too,
( George Saunders )
[ Lincoln in the Bardo ]
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