“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”

—  Bram Stoker , book Dracula

Variant: The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.
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Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for… 1847–1912

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