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Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

Men

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Helen Keller is saying that many kind people focus a lot of effort on opposing evil instead of showing love to others. She suggests that if they devoted that same effort to caring for people, evil would lose its power because it would be ignored and become bored.

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