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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
People
"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."
Woman
"The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them."
Life
"Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character."
Life
"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."
People
"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
Humor
"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society
"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
Life
"Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing."
Communication
"My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine."
People
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