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  • La moralidad de una acción depende del motivo por el que actuamos. Si arrojo media corona a un mendigo con la intención de romperle la cabeza y él la recoge y compra víveres con ella, el efecto físico es bueno. Pero con respecto a mí la acción es muy mala.

    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.349