Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

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• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
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