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I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Edith Wharton
Exercise, Errands, Destruction
Edith Wharton (2016). “Tales of Men and Ghosts: American Literature”, p.141, VM eBooks
I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.