“People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.”
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La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
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“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 18.
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