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What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.
What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.
Approximate author period: c. 1896 AD · industrial
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- Marcel Proust
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- Approximate author period: c. 1896 AD · industrial
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