The good conscience of the wicked rest on all the villainies they refrain form committing.
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
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