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David Levithan Quotes: That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.
         

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.


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