It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.