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"Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."
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"It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy."
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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed."
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"Talk without the support of action means nothing."
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"When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
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"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
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"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
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"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."
Misfortune
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