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Folkways · 1906
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc · 1896
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Moll Flanders · 1722