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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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

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If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear? – Confucius

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