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"A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"Sin is the delusion of our feelings, while crime is the delusion of our actions."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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"Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk."
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"If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined."
Society
"Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness."
Adventure
"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature
"People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing."
Psychology
"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."
Philosophy
"He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes."
Observation
"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."
Education
"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith
"If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow."
Art
"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."
Morality
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