Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good a…

W. Somerset Maugham
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself
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