Quote by Samuel Butler
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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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

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

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Conscience is the dog that cant bite, but never stops barking. – Proverb

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