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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it cert...more

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

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It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

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Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses...more

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I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight o...more

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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss abou...more