"One must be cunning and wicked in this world."
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"You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be."
"When I am wicked I am in high spirits."
"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
"He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear."
"[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work."
"What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man."
"The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked."
"O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them."
"Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day."
"It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you."
"You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go."
"When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection."
"Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one."
"In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars."
"A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good."
"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."
"Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!"
"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave."
"To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion."