"Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour."
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"I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury."
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"A good thing can't be cruel."
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"there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven."
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"She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him."
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"Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man."
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"Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty."
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"People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith."
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"Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity."
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"Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses."
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"Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part."
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"Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man."
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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
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"Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy."
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"Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place."
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"Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain."
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"Cowardice is the mother of cruelty."
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