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"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."

"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."

"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."

"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."

"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
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