"All a man can betray is his conscience."
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Under Western Eyes
by
Joseph Conrad
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
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Three Men in a Boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
"I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. Don't sneer at it, Harry, any more,--at least not before me. I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience."
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The Adventure of Abbey Grange
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle