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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

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The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful...

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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that ...

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But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and compl...

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Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born...

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