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Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom opinion than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
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O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
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