Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
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vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their
cause.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
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Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.
