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The Wire · 2006
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
The Principles of Psychology · 1890
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897
The greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained.
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant · 1869
Letter from Birmingham Jail · 1963
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781