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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." -
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Top 5 quotes from Morality
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
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