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“Be not too hasty . . . to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars” William Shakespeare, King Lear

“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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C. S. Lewis (2)
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W. Somerset Maugham (1)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1)
Bret Easton Ellis (1)

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Mere Christianity (2)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1)
Of Human Bondage (1)
King Lear (1)
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1)
American Psycho (1)