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Quote by Dante Alighieri
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is

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

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

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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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