All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. - George Edward Moore

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Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

George Edward Moore

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

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Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

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Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

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