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Quote by Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – Jane Addams

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams

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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. – Jane Addams

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln

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Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. – Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 1987 February 16th

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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. – Benjamin Franklin

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