"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason."

Morals, Lust, Opinions, Order

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"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason."

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"Sell your materials but save your morals."

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"Oh the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness Are nothing to their goodness when they're good."

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"When the sun comes up, I have morals again."

Elayne Boosler, American Comedian

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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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