Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. - Pliny the Younger - Quotesmemo.com

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The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

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Pliny the Younger

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

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Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

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The living voice is that which sways the soul.

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The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

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