"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity."

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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

— Oliver Goldsmith