Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith
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  1. Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,... - Thomas Hardy

  2. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. - Richard Bach

  3. I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  4. A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. - Mark Twain

  5. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. - Leo Tolstoy

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  1. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  2. Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

  3. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

  4. It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.

  5. A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

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