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

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Havelock Ellis

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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. – Havelock Ellis

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Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys

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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. – Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

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

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