Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Federica Montseny

Always Appetite Better Blood Depths Desire Emerges Hearts Honest Honesty Known Latent Men Neither Nor Rogues Springs Them Thirst Worse

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