They think a knife can settle all the world's difficulties; and that's a mistake. It can settle a good many, but not all. Do you honestly believe that it settles any? He looked at her in surprise. Of course, she went on, it eliminates, for the moment, the practical difficulty caused by the presence of a clever spy or objectionable official; but whether it does not create worse difficulties in place of the one removed is another question. It seems to me like the parable of the swept and garnished house and the seven devils. Every assassination only makes the police more vicious and the
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