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  • Behold,I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew10:16.

  • A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Religion and Literature.

  • A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      BB.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

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