C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."
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Necessary Evil
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Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Generalities are intellectually necessary evils."
Carolyn Wells
Author
"A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity."
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