To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I'm giving you a chance to do something to control your own destiny. Do something good. Don't sit back and just wring your hands and say the world is terrible.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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