There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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