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I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find ...
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
There are two kinds of timidity--timidity of mind, and timidity of the nerves; physical timidity, and moral timidity. Each is inde ...
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
The parents who wish to lead a quiet life I would say: Tell your children that they are very naughty--much naughtier than most chi ...
... I want to live and be happy. I believe that we cannot be one or the other by pushing the absurd to all its consequences. I am ...
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful lever ...
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tale,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
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