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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. ↗

— William Weld

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

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Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ↗

— George Whitefield

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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. ↗

— Olivia Williams

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