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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. - J. Petit-Senn

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. – J. Petit-Senn

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. – Vida D. Scudder

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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised. – Proverb

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I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. – Hāfez

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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. – Richard M. Nixon

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