<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Malefactor's Plea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of sentences that stir my bile,<br>Of phrases I detest,<br>There's one beyond all others vile;<br>&quot;He did it for the best.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course he did: I don't suppose,<br>Nor can you think I should,<br>The man's among my deadliest foes,<br>Or is not fairly good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course he did it for the best:<br>What should he do it for?<br>But did he do it? that's the test:<br>I ask to know no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! he did: and here am I,<br>Quite ruined, half disgraced;<br>And you can really ask me why<br>My wrath is not effaced:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there is he, good worthy man,<br>With self-esteem possessed,<br>Still saying, as of course he can,<br>&quot;I did it for the best.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No evil deed was ever done,<br>Or honest man withstood,<br>Since first this weary world begun,<br>Except for someone's good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And can it signify to me<br>Whose good he did it for?<br>Mine was it? thus 'twas wont to be,<br>And will be ever more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When inoffensive people plant<br>A dagger in your breast,<br>Your good is what they really want:<br>They do it for the best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Kenneth+Stephen">James Kenneth Stephen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415919" data-title="The Malefactor's Plea de James Kenneth Stephen" data-description="Of sentences that stir my bile, Of phrases I detest, There's one beyond all others vile; &quot;He did it for the best.&quot; Of course he did: I don't suppose, Nor can you think I should, The man's among my deadliest foes, Or is not fairly good. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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