"Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked."
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"If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger."
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"Don't let the wicked city get you down."
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"Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world."
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"We can't all come and go by bubble!"
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"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."
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"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
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"You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says."
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"Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways."
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"Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."
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"We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too."
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"She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace."
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"Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy."
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"A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts."
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"Let the green girl go!"
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"Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow."
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"It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive."
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"If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?"
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"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
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"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest."
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