"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
~
Reginald
by
Saki
It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.
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Erewhon
by
Samuel Butler
It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it a la mode and stylishly.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
by
Anthony Hope
"If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation."
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.
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The Way of All Flesh
by
Samuel Butler
I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
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Henry VIII
by
William Shakespeare
"To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us."
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I Will Repay
by
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are.
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Three Men in a Boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
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The Little Minister
by
James M. Barrie