There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.Gilbert Parker
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
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There is no influence like the influence of habit.
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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There was no tragedy in his death -death is a magnificent ally it untangles knots.
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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