"My only policy is to profess evil and do good."
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"Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?"
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"The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
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"We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet."
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"To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better."
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"That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice"
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"The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him."
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"Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers."
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"There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease."
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"Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]"
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"Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]"
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"Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]"
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"Evils have their comfort, good none can support."
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"Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God."
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"There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil."
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"Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains."
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"The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good."
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"But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all."
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"He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it."
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"And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever."
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