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What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command. – Havelock Ellis

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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. – Havelock Ellis

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Life
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. – Havelock Ellis

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Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Such as take lodgings in a head thats to be let unfurnished. – Samuel Butler

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