“ all the world is wicked; let us therefore strike at wickedness! ”
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1845). copy citation
Author | Alexandre Dumas |
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Source | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Topic | wickedness world |
Date | 1845 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1184/1184-h/1184-h.htm |
Context
“and more,—I repeat it with joy, with triumph,—I have always found some proof of human perversity or error. Every criminal I condemn seems to me living evidence that I am not a hideous exception to the rest. Alas, alas, alas; all the world is wicked; let us therefore strike at wickedness!”
Villefort pronounced these last words with a feverish rage, which gave a ferocious eloquence to his words.
“But”’ said Madame Danglars, resolving to make a last effort, “this young man, though a murderer, is an orphan, abandoned by everybody.””
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