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,...
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Thomas Hardy
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Richard Bach
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Mark Twain
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close,...
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
