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F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for the ...
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to gove ...
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
There are no lower or higher or median moralities. There is only one morality, and it is precisely the one that was given to us du ...
His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. ...
While abroad, he met with a very salacious English woman, whose liberality retrieved his fortune, with several circumstances more ...
It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum; ...
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
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