This would have happened even if the intention had been to get all bad men, for the reason that man reaches perfection neither in good nor in evil. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

This would have happened even if the intention had been to get all bad men, for the reason that man reaches perfection neither in good nor in evil.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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