"Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices."
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"You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot."
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"And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone"
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"Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie."
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"The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience."
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"The sun also shines on the wicked."
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"Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back."
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"Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God."
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"You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate."
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"Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad."
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"A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian."
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"A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward."
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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
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"The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid."
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"No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other."
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"Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!"
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"If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.""
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"The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive."
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