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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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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A mans conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldnt do — but it does not keep him from doing it. – Frank A. Clark

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

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Make yourself necessary to somebody. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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