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“The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. Tis a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
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