Aug 02, 2005 18:32
"Do you believe that men always butchered one another the way they do today?" Candide asked. "Do you believe they have always been liars, rogues, traitors, ingrates, brigands, weaklings, inconstant, cowards, enviers, gluttons, drunkards, misers, self-seekers, bloodthirsty, slanderers, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?"
"Do you believe that hawks have always eaten pigeons wherever they have found them?" Martin asked.
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