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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. – Samuel Butler

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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. – Chinese Proverb

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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. – Madame Dudevant

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. – Joseph Cook

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