“Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

The Economist Sees No Evil http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_2_20_02td.html (February 20, 2002). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)

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English doctor and writer 1949

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