TITLE: The Count of Monte Cristo AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas TRANSLATOR: Robin Buss DATE PUBLISHED: originally 1844 (Penguin edition 2012) FORMAT: Hardcover EDITION: Penguin Classics (Clothbound), complete and unabridged ISBN-13: 978...
Human beings tend to cling to convenient obliviousness – ‘I haven’t seen it, so it can’t really exist!’ – in spite of embarrassing, burgeoning bodies of evidence to the contrary. In order for this comfortable bliss of ignorance to be maintained, it follows that any flagging up of the problem will be...
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"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad, that, however, isn't the point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the m...
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