The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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