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“I may do some good before I am dead—be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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