Everybody continually tries to get away with as much as he can; and society is a marvelous machine which allows decent people to be cruel without realizing it. (Émile Chartier)

Everybody continually tries to get away with as much as he can; and society is a marvelous machine which allows decent people to be cruel without realizing it.

Émile Chartier

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