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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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Personal Development

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
Habit

"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
Money

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
Love

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
Man

"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."
Philosophy

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
Desire

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
Friendship

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
Philosophy

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
Man
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