To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
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Error is the force that welds men together truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
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