There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbou — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbou — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbou — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbou — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbou — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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