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"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it 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."
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
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