"Do you believe that men always butchered one another the way they do today?" Candide asked. "Do you believe they have always been liars, rogues, traitors, ingrates, brigands, weaklings, inconstant, cowards, enviers, gluttons, drunkards, misers, self-seekers, bloodthirsty, slanderers, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools
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