Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little. Augustus Hare Quotes
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little.

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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never

It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard even than what he condemns of his own character i

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard even than what he condemns of his own character information and abilities.

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    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

    We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

    Society is our extended mind and body.

    Society is our extended mind and body.

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