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“Good and evil both increase at compound interest.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“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
“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
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
“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
“What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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
“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

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Mere Christianity (2)
Of Human Bondage (1)
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American Psycho (1)
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