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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
Reincarnation
Deadly
Compassion
Sense
Things
Misguided

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