“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”
Source: Les Misérables
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Variant: I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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Context: Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
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