"As my poor d'Artagnan used to swear, the importance of the end justifies the meanness of the methods."
— Consequentialism

January 1, 1970

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Paul Mahalin (published under the name of Alexandre Dumas), The Son of Porthos: or, The Death of Aramis (1883), ch. 12: "Any Port in a Storm"