I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, beca…

Umberto Eco
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). The Name of the Rose, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). The Name of the Rose, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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