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[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.
– Theodore Dalrymple

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