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“There is, after all, such a thing as evil. The instinct not to give it its proper name is one of the tactics that evil itself employs in order to smuggle in its deadly purposes under the noses of those who, not themselves in the grip of evil, are nevertheless unwilling to confront it for fear of looking arrogant, of causing too much of a fuss.”

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