When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
Quotes from Newspaper Days: 1899-1906 — H. L. Mencken
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: H. L. Mencken (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.