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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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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. – George Bancroft

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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. – William Ellery Channing

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! – Dante Alighieri

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