However. I was on the right side, and that was enough to ease my conscience. A sense of legality, the satisfaction of being right and the joy of self-esteem: these, my dear sir, are powerful incentives to keep us on our feet and moving forward. On the other hand, if you deprive men of these, you transform them into rabid dogs. How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong! I once knew an industrialist who had a perfect wife, the object of universal admiration, and yet he was unfaithful to her. The man literally raged at
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