"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

Morality, Taste, Preference, Observation

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"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

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"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"

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"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."

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"There is no wealth but life."

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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

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