It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. (James Fenimore Cooper)

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

James Fenimore Cooper

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