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"The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong."
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"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
"Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
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"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."
"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."
"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
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