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 There is a method in man's wickedness,
 It grows up by degrees.  
 There is a method in man's wickedness,
 It grows up by degrees. 
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
 Are you drawn forth among a world of men
 To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
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 Are you drawn forth among a world of men
 To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
  Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
   What lawful quest have given their verdict up
    Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
     The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death
      Before I be convict by course of law?
       To threaten me with death is most unlawful:
        I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption
         By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]
          That you depart, and lay no hands on me.
           The deed you undertake is damnable. 
 Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
 Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
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 Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
 Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!
   O semper timidum scelus!] 
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as read more
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
 Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two 
rascals can be ten times as vicious read more 
 Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two 
rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. 
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.