"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

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"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins."

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"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

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"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."

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