“By an unfailing coincidence, the man who wrongs us is a villain, and the man who does us a kindness is a saint.”

— Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 109

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As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html
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“By an unfailing coincidence, the man who wrongs us is a villain, and the man who does us a kindness is a saint.”

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