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Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human...
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Dennis Lehane
Book:
The Drop
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Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.
( Dennis Lehane )
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