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evil intellectual rehabilitation
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. Charles Dickens
evil lazy would-be
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
motives prove prudence
Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives Vauvenargues Marquis
motives point reasonable security terrible
Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.
motives
As always with Cablevision, their motives are inscrutable,
wicked
It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you. Charlotte Bronte
wicked earth would-be
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
wickedness folly
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
wicked witch casts
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. Alan Rickman
wicked-person lovers common
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
wicked rivals ruins
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. Edmund Burke
wicked done wicked-things
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. Antisthenes
wicked world way
It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with. Daniel Handler
wicked grit true-grit
The wicked flee when none pursueth. Charles Portis