“There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever — money, for instance, or war.”

—  Saul Bellow , book The Dean's December

The Dean’s December (1982) [Penguin Classics, 1998, ISBN 0-140-18913-0], ch. 13, p. 140
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