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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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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – 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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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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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. – Josh Billings

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