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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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Ill walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. – Emily Bronte

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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. – Richard Russo

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. – Tacitus

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