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Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses Quotes: [T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.
         

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.


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