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Alexander McCall Smith Quote

It defeated him that anybody could ever bring such a result about if they knew, or could imagine, the heartbreak of the victim’s family. Of course the people who did these things were usually deficient in moral imagination—they could not see what it would be like because they simply lacked the capacity to do so.

Alexander McCall Smith

It defeated him that anybody could ever bring such a result about if they knew, or could imagine, the heartbreak of the victim’s family. Of course the people who did these things were usually deficient in moral imagination—they could not see what it would be like because they simply lacked the capacity to do so.

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