"You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could."
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"For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come."
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"A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master."
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"It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner."
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"Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked."
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"A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish."
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"Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are."
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"We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?"
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""State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life.""
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"You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel."
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"God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will."
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"I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it."
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"Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God."
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"A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war."
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"The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance."
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"There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them."
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"To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin."
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"I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue."
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