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Blaise Pascal, Pensées Quotes: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
         

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.


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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
         



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