I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not t… — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward BeecherClergyman · American · 1813 – 1887

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