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"True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."
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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."
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"Sin is the delusion of our feelings, while crime is the delusion of our actions."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
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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."
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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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"Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Wellness
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship
"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
Leadership
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Religion
"Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say."
Emotion
"This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions."
Politics
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