"Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality."

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"It is pride that makes error and discord among men."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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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."

"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

"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."

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

"It is pride that makes error and discord among men."

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"You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing."

"Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality."