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P. G. Wodehouse

"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character."

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"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character."

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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

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"Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective."

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"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"

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"Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unertrA¤glicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wA¤re. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso."

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"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."

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"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."

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"Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves."

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