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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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