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“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
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- Source:
- Ch. 6
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 611ad2a5e9e20fa64801a11905cd7b96e469d43a6e16607b8189b371d71e7177
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