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"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."
"Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world."
"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
"Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!"
"The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling."
"Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life."
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help."
"Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God."
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"Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed."
"It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas."
"Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing."
"We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars."
"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."
"When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all."
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