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Henri-Frédéric Amiel - If ignorance and passion are...
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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