“Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Good souls have born better sons,
Better souls born worse ones.”
"The Strangers"
Actor (2009)
Context: Good souls have born better sons,
Better souls born worse ones.
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