“ When there are people who make discoveries that are of use to people, why should others take so much trouble to do harm? ”
Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif (1880). copy citation
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
|---|---|
| Source | Boule de Suif |
| Topic | discovery trouble |
| Date | 1880 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boule_de_Suif |
Context
“Poor people have to feed and keep them, only in order that they may learn how to kill! True, I am only an old woman with no education, but when I see them wearing themselves out marching about from morning till night, I say to myself: When there are people who make discoveries that are of use to people, why should others take so much trouble to do harm? Really, now, isn't it a terrible thing to kill people, whether they are Prussians, or English, or Poles, or French? If we revenge ourselves on any one who injures us we do wrong, and are punished for it;”
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