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The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

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Henry George
Age: 58 †
Born: 1839
Born: September 2
Died: 1897
Died: October 29
Economist
Editor
Journalist
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Men
Slavery
Dulls
Wrong
Villainy
Sense
Theft
Become
Accustomed
Stills
Unjust
Still
Tolerance
May
Injustice
Even
Murder

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