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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

It’s good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.