A Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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