Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what…

Virginia Woolf
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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.89, Broadview Press
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