In The Dark Colony Of Night, When I Consider Man's Magnificent Capacity For Malice

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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity
for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I
wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I
seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with
covers closed.
Leo Rosten

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