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(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson

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I am inclined to follow the course suggested by a friend of mine who says that he has always followed the rule never to murder a man who is committing suicide, and clearly this misdirected gentleman is committing suicide slowly but sureley.
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Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51.
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Variant: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

 
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