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Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, hav ...
Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress ...
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function ...
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of tho ...
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth--well, it's like brown--it's not in the spectrum.... Truth is sui generis.
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to ...
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